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Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Lord of the Rings….now in ragtime.

If you haven’t seen Jonny May’s ragtime videos, his channel is well worth blowing a morning on….

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Every Adult In “Harry Potter” Let Us Down At Some Point And That’s Important a 900 page dissertation by me

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A Very Potter Musical

I just started watching a very potter musical, a very potter senior, and a very potter sequel, and I can safely say that they should be more canon than the monstrosity that is Cursed Child. So many amazing actors and songs, within five days of starting to watch it, I have watched all of them, and got all the soundtracks. 

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Snape

Recently i was talking to one of my friends who is still reading the harry potter books, and I realized that they liked Snape. I still cant figure out why, but i figured I would use this to organize my thoughts and maybe provide some entertainment to someone. Why do some people still like him? As well as being a general creep, as we can see in that wonderful scene where he takes the part of the letter with Lily's love, and tore of Lily from the photo with her family. As well as this he was a jerk to his students. The bit where, after Neville makes a mistake with his potion, and he threatens to give the potion to his pet toad, and then takes points from Gryffindor when Hermione helps him. As well we see parts like when Hermione’s teeth get hit with the growth spell, and he mentions about how he sees no difference. All this gets worse when we realize he did not turn against Voldemort until he threatens Lily. This is not to say he is all evil, but he is not a good character.

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McGonagall: Crimes of Grindelwald

First off, McGonagall is a amazing witch, both in talent and in her personality. The simple sentence of “Have a biscuit, Potter” shows us how amazing she is. Her hobbies include correcting issues of Transfiguration Today. She is a badass. But while reading the books, scrolling through Pottermore, and watching the movies, namely Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:  The Crimes of Grindelwald we see a problem. This beloved character is present. The movie takes place in 1927, and her presence would not be a problem if not for the fact that she ha not yet started teaching. She would not start teaching until 1956, two years after her graduation. Some may try to explain this by her being a student, perhaps a prefect, and in this we run into a bigger problem. She was not born yet. In fact she would not be born until Oct 4,1935 eight years after the movie takes place. This is, undoubtedly, a problem.