#pottermania

[hiramnoriega]

El protagonista de Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, confesó que pasó las primeras películas teniéndole mucho terror a Alan Rickman, quien dio vida a Severus Snape.

[a-typical-scribbler]

Ron : I think i have been a great friend to Harry. Although i did freak out and walked out and left my best friend and my gf in the jungle. I came back. Even dumbledore knew i would go back.. he gave me the deluminator ! Look !

Samwise gamgee:

[hannacho-art]

Food Craft: Harry Potter Golden Snitch Cake Pops Calling all Harry Potter fans. These adorable Golden Snitch Cake Pops will have you feeling like you're in the wizarding world.

[mindrushai]

🔥 Mind-Blowing Wizarding Saga Unveiled! From Magical Discoveries to Epic Showdowns, Prepare to be Astonished! ⚡️🏰

Using ChatGPT to rename Harry Potter Books as clickbait YouTube Titles :) "🔮Boy Discovers Magical World! You Won't Believe What Happens Next! 😱✨" (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

"🧙‍♂️11-Year-Old Boy Learns He's a Wizard and Attends Epic School! Shocking! 🎒🏰" (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"🐍Harry Potter Faces Giant Serpent! Watch His Daring Escape! 🏃‍♂️💥" (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"⏳Wizard Teen's Dangerous Time Travel Adventure! Mind-Blowing Twist! ⏰🌀" (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"🦇Dark Lord Returns! Harry Potter's Epic Battle for Survival! ⚡️🔥" (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"🔒Secrets Revealed! Harry Potter Uncovers the Hidden Prophecy! 📜🔍" (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"⚔️Epic Battle of Hogwarts! Who Will Survive the Ultimate Showdown? 💥🏰" (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

[sweetteaandpie]

in my headcanon (sort of building on a post i wrote months and months ago), niles and cc welcomed twin girls after moving back to new york from california. west coast life didn't agree with them. i go back and forth on what to name them, but currently we're (me, niles, and cc) on fiona and flora. fifi and flo to niles, which makes cc roll her eyes. marriage and parenthood hasn't relaxed her one iota; any signs of softening is actually her surrendering for her sanity's sake. "be the river, cc, be the fucking river," she says to herself at least a dozen times a day.

when they are eight, they discover harry potter and become obsessed. it's the 00s so it makes sense as HP was EVERYWHERE. cc feels her sanity slipping as she can't escape it. even when she goes to work, she finds a golden snitch in her briefcase and a bertie botts every flavour bean in her bra. somehow. she suffers so (though years later, she actually has a hand in bringing "the cursed child" to the stage. apparently, she was always a bellamort shipper, identifying heavily with bellatrix).

niles reads the books to them at bedtime, they attend the midnight premieres of the movies, and they wait in long lines for the midnight release of the books. fiona and flora INSIST their parents dress up with them for one of the midnight releases. fiona is luna lovegood and flora is the whomping willow, delightfully hitting anyone who comes near her.

niles is madame sprout. "what? she has her own greenhouse!" he responds to anyone who wonders why he isn't someone more...popular. when people ask cc who she is, niles rushes to answer, "she's nagini, can't you tell? she didn't need a costume." to which cc glares at him and sticks out her tongue. "there's that method acting prowess!" he replies.

one evening on the drive home from school (their hippie, crunchy granola, vegan, booze-free waldorf school, of course), the twins decide to do a test to see what their hogwarts house is. fiona is looking for validation that she is, in fact, a ravenclaw. flora is convinced she's a gryffindor. and no one can tell them any differently. but still, just to be on the safe side, they take a test that's in the latest issue of one of their favourite magazines that will reveal their hogwarts houses, allaying their fears once and for all.

this is a very important time of discovery for them; after all, this is an OFFICIAL test because it's in print, in their favourite magazine with a picture of harry, ron, and hermione on the cover. they will be able to tell their friends (the ones not relegated to reading only things like encyclopedias and dictionaries by their helicopter parents, that is) that a magazine has independently verified their anecdotal findings. they excitedly read each question and very mindfully choose their answers in the backseat. the car ride is going quite pleasantly, and most importantly, quietly when niles and cc are suddenly startled by a loud screeching.

"SLYTHERIN?! HOW ARE WE SLYTHERIN??!"

"MUMMY, ARE WE EVIL??"

one sounds aghast and the other, near tears.

niles opens his mouth to say something and cc cuts him off. "don't you even think about it."

"i told you they were your mini mes," he smirks. "you're the reason they've now discovered their true nature."

"can it, hazel." she pulls up to a stop light and looks in her rearview mirror. "darlings, it's just a fun test. it's not to be taken seriously."

"but mummy, it's in a MAGAZINE. that means it's FOR REAL."

"yes, mummy, it's for real," niles grins.

cc glares at him again. "you know, i think daddy would love to take the test. read him the questions and the answers for him to choose from."

"babs, everyone knows i am an avowed hufflepuff. diligent, hard-working, honest..."

"it's good we're talking harry potter and not pinocchio because i could use your nose to walk from here to brooklyn."

niles is affronted. he knows to which house his loyalties lie. but in the interest of calming the twins, he agrees to take the test. he thinks about his answers carefully and, truth be told, he intentionally chooses ones he thinks more aligns with hufflepuff.

when finished, the twins both add up the points from each question. as they work, niles keeps smirking at cc and she rolls her eyes.

"daddy, you're a slytherin."

his smirk instantly disappears. "what? are you sure you added them up correctly?? do you even know your numbers over 10??"

"of course they do," cc interjects. "i let them count MY money, so i know for a fact they know their numbers up into the millions."

he grumbles. "all right, then YOU take the test!"

"i have no problem with being a slytherin," she says with a calm casualness.

"of course not. you were practically born in the chamber of secrets," he mumbles.

the twins give her the test and she breezily picks her answers as she drives.

"well??" niles says as the work to add up the points. "what is she? snape or malfoy?"

"mummy's a ravenclaw, daddy."

now it was cc's turn to smirk.

[d-criss-news]

Would A Very Potter Musical work today? We asked Darren Criss

If you were an internet kid circa 2009, you are probably familiar with A Very Potter Musical. The student-made musical parody, which came out at the height of Pottermania, became an early viral hit and rocketed star Darren Criss to fame.

So when Popverse video producer Veronica Valencia (and musical theater nerd) got to chat with Criss at C2E2 '24, she asked if the same magic (heh) could be captured again.

"It's hard," said the Glee and StarKid leading man, "because the paradigm like of being mainstream or having any sort of accessibility moves so much faster than the rate of content creation, that it's kind of hard to say what would happen. Anything that's a 'lightning in a bottom moment,' if you can use that as comparative image, the lightning happens so fast that the bottle has to be in a specific place that if it was moved a centimeter to the right, it wouldn't have gone in the bottle."

"Like if the Beatles came out 5 years later," he continued, "and they weren't the boys they were from a certain class from a certain part of the world… There are so many things that happen in culture that are completely predicated upon a specific amount of circumstances."

Indeed, A Very Potter Musical was quite particular lightning in a quite particular bottle, as any fan of the YouTube sensation can attest. So would the weather/glassware conditions be correct for it today? Criss's answer might disappoint you.

"No," Criss concludes, "I don't think there would be any place for something like A Very Potter Musical now, because it would have been conceived different. It wouldn't have even been considered."

It's a bit of a bummer, but Criss has a point. Despite its beloved status in the hearts of many fans, the grand heyday of Harry Potter fandom is, if not over, at least waning. But could the conditions be right for something similar? Could a StarKid musical based on, say, Stranger Things work?

We'll just have to monitor the clouds and make sure we know where our bottles are.

[fierceawakening]

Yeah I agree with you HP and Earthsea. I never cared for Harry Potter but that was more being enamored with the kid version of Greek mythology and other magical creatures and how I didn’t want to imagine myself going to any school even a magical one. But I find myself getting annoyed with people acting like their enjoyment of Ursula LeGuin’s work made them morally superior and how their politics were good because they enjoyed her over JKR.

Ooof. Yeah. There's this really intense desire to retcon Pottermania into a weird shared obsession with some chick who can't write and that's not what that was at all.

It's especially confusing to me when there are just so, so many artists and writers and creators we're finding out have less character than a festering pustule. You'd think we'd gather by now that how imaginative someone is and how morally upstanding someone is are two completely different axes but no.

[kiefbowl]

I am constantly getting youtube video recommendations about harry potter I feel like I see MORE harry potter now than I did during pottermania and I lived pottermania. how do we get these people into a history subject instead.

[twelvemonkeyswere]

Pratchett & JK Rowling

When Terry took exception publicly to a profile of Rowling in Time magazine for its reductive attitude to fantasy writing in general, it was reported as if his beef were with Rowling rather than with the article in Time magazine. But ‘Pratchett Attacks Rowling’, as the BBC website reported it, was always going to be a more alluring headline than ‘Pratchett Attacks Piece in Time Magazine’. For Terry the greater indignity was now quite regularly being asked whether Hogwarts (founded 1997) was the inspiration for Hogswatch (founded 1976, in Dark Side of the Sun) or whether the bespectacled boy wizard Ponder Stibbons (born 1990, in Moving Pictures) was any kind of tribute to the bespectacled boy wizard referred to by Terry in his tour report as H*rry P*tt*r.fn5 Equally irritating was seeing Rowling casually credited with ‘revolutionizing’ the ‘hitherto moribund’ world of fantasy fiction. On the BBC, Andrew Marr immortally introduced Terry by suggesting that he was ‘following in the footsteps of Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling’. Terry was bound to bristle, during this period of intense and culture-tipping Pottermania, and wonder what had happened to his own footprints. Behind the scenes, though, magnanimity prevailed – albeit that it sometimes appeared to be magnanimity of a quietly smouldering kind. Terry wrote to Rowling to congratulate her on replacing him at the top of the pile, asking her in the letter whether she had ‘had the moment yet’, before explaining that for Terry ‘the moment’ had come in the lavatory cubicle of a first-class cabin on a transatlantic flight, when he had looked at his reflection in the mirror and thought to himself, ‘Why me?’ It wasn’t, perhaps, the most gushing of tributes. It was, in fact, a little thorny – a faintly Roman-style reminder for the victor, in this moment of glory, that luck always plays its part. But you would have to say that it was at least honest, and even sympathetic. Terry and J. K. Rowling were later together at an event in Edinburgh during the Festival and bowed to each other graciously across the room. They also had a brief but entirely convivial exchange, at the end of which Rowling apologized for needing to leave. ‘You’ve probably got to sign off on a Harry Potter toilet roll holder,’ suggested Terry. Rowling laughed. ‘Terry,’ she said, ‘you have no idea.’ However, for all the discomforts, smaller and larger, around being nudged off the uppermost perch, it’s possible that the experience galvanized Terry to some extent – that it was perhaps even liberating. Number one status clearly wasn’t coming back any time soon; that was no longer his burden to fret about. He had been there, and had nothing to prove in that regard. So maybe he was a little freer than he had been to please himself. It was certainly the case that he now embarked upon a sequence of books unlike any he had attempted before.

[greenerteacups]

I was just talking with a friend about possible great HP-world tv-shows and we ended up at "Pride and Prejudice in the HP wizarding world" (not the plot of P&P but the vibes; with Slytherin!Mr.Darcy and Gryffindor!Elizabeth (or OR! better yet vice versa)) and I thought you would be such a perfect fit to write it 😍

aw, thanks, that's a fun idea! I feel like Hogwarts AUs for other fandoms used to be more of a thing back in the age of peak Pottermania, and I wonder if they won't end up coming back when the TV show drops.

Darcy is totally a Hufflepuff, though.

[bobapril]

Could it have been sustained, though? I've been a Star Trek fan for decades, long enough to be very familiar with the horrible bigotry baked into the Original Series. A colonial mindset, mono-culture aliens that evoke racist tropes, rampant sexism both in the scripts and behind the scenes. And frankly, it got even worse when TNG came out, with the anti-Semitic creation of the Ferengi, that horrifying travesty of Code of Honor, and the ridiculous show-runner conclusion that there were "too many women" that led to the loss of Denise Crosby and the sidelining of Gates McFadden. It's honestly a miracle that we found enough good in it to keep it alive through to now. But I think it's saved by two things. One, that TOS, at least, was groundbreaking for the time. Uhura was both a token Black and token woman - but she was on the Bridge, part of the leadership, something shocking enough at the time to make Whoopi Goldberg and even Dr. M. L. King Jr. sit up and take notice. We had a Japanese guy and later even a Russian right there with the Captain, too. But second and even more important, Star Trek consciously worked against the very bigotry that it expressed subconsciously. It displayed casual and societal bigotry against Blacks, women, Communists, the Chinese, and so on - but it actively tried to represent all of them as important parts of the team, and also wrote "bonk bonk on the head"-level messages of peace and diversity into the scripts. The show was clearly TRYING for something better, reaching for a better future, even as it was still mired in the muck of the era. I don't think Rowling ever managed that. Her bigotry was on full display, especially with the anti-Semitic goblins, happy slaves, and racist names. We managed to excuse that unconscious bigotry in Star Trek - but where's the part where she tried to subvert it? Hermione tried to rescue the slaves from their pitiful lot - and was roundly mocked for it, and opposed by the slaves themselves. Dobby was the singular exception, but even he wound up being basically a happy slave to a new and more caring master. Griphook gets accepted as part of the team - and then betrays the team. The whole culture is a secret enclave within our own modern world, but the revolution led by Harry and his friends doesn't change that at all, it just puts different people in charge. That was all going to be noticed eventually. Pottermania certainly hit the zeitgeist, and spawned a huge following. But I honestly don't think it had the fundamental strength to carry on indefinitely, even apart from Rowling's vicious anti-trans attacks. Maybe if she had retired after Book 7 and let others carry on...but her late and tepid acceptance of Dumbledore as gay suggests that as long as she remained the source, she was going to create more problems.

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

[fortressofserenity]

Not for the spiritually immature

I remember reading somewhere on Gotquestions that something like Harry Potter might not be for spiritually mature people, in the sense that they don’t have enough discernment to know what’s wrong from what’s right and more specifically, what’s real magic from what isn’t. Harry Potter is basically a story about a young man who uses magic spells and attends a school for magic users like him, well there’s this one person who could be spiritually immature in the sense of turning the story into their idol in times of trouble instead of turning to God for the same. Harry Potter may not lead others to the occult, but often risks becoming an idol for them just the same.

It could act as a doorway to the occult for those who’re even less spiritually mature, particularly if their parents are merely religious and not in a deep relationship with God, as to be unaware of what their children are up to and what they should’ve done more with them. I have a feeling that somebody else in my family might have gotten into the occult if it weren’t for Harry Potter, that while its author may not necessarily practise the occult herself but still dealt with spiritually murky territory when it comes to folk superstitions. Belief in God does dispel superstitions a lot, especially when it comes to trusting and believing in him more that it feels more useful this way.

Maybe not entirely, but enough to grant security for those who believe. Something like Harry Potter could be used by the Devil to take people away from God, but for some if they themselves aren’t that spiritually mature though the same can be said of anything else as it is with me and one superhero. That relative might end up resenting that series more, especially for introducing her to the occult and magic as to be practically regrettable. The fact that Harry Potter might not be for spiritually immature people makes a lot of sense really, in the sense that they don’t know what’s real and what’s not. Not necessarily always because they’re children, though it could affect them in a formative period.

But that they’re unable to tell what’s really right for them and what’s not, their ability to discern what’s spiritually right isn’t formed yet which makes it easier for the Devil to take advantage of them and their weak spots as it is for me before. It could be particularly true for some Harry Potter fans who come from Christian households like it could lead them into a bad rabbit hole if they’re not careful, which goes double for their parents for not being more careful with this kind of stuff. It’s not just that they’re not developmentally mature enough, but more importantly they’re not spiritually mature enough to realise what’s even good for them. That’s got to do with Christians making sure others don’t stumble.

However it seems for some Christian parents, they pretty much forget about it not knowing what consequences it portends for their children. While Harry Potter fandom wouldn’t necessarily lead somebody else to the occult, it could lead them to other sins like lust when it comes to the prevalence of slash fanfiction there that it could be true for one of my relatives really. I think a number of Christians are in the right to distrust Harry Potter, though not always in ways they think it is or imagine when it comes to the other side of Pottermania. If Harry Potter fandom doesn’t lead people to the occult, it could still lead them to other vices if they’re just as careless.

Because some Harry Potter fans sexualise the characters a lot that fanmade Potter erotica would lead someone else to a lifelong porn addiction as it would be for someone in my family, Harry Potter fandom wouldn’t necessarily lead people to porn either but still a gateway to idolatry as it is with all secular fandoms. For this person who lamented about their Potter addiction, it didn’t lead them to the occult but it did lead them to idolatry and doubting God a lot that it seemed it wasn’t a good influence to them. While what they went through isn’t exactly true for others, the danger was always there in some form or another.

Harry Potter idolatry could lead somebody to the occult, but it’s just as apt to lead them to lifelong lust problems if they’re vulnerable to this. Like if they have strong romantic attractions to certain characters that lust would be a stone’s throw away, it could be particularly true for one cousin should they come out admitting they lusted after a certain character that led them to black man porn or something. Perhaps this is exactly what the Bible meant by not associating oneself with certain companies, lest they become a bad influence to you if you’re not careful. It needn’t to be the Harry Potter fandom to do this, it could be anything else and it would still be just as problematic for as long as the Devil knows our weak spots.

But it could be true if you like Harry Potter on some level that the precipice was always there, the elephant in the room for those who’re unaware. Perhaps it’s wise to be cautious of something like Harry Potter in some regards, especially when it comes to something like the portrayal of magic for some people or lust for others. I feel like the lust part is often ignored, even if it’s just as a problem if people get too attached to certain characters in a certain way. Like if you have a cousin who developed an addiction to black man porn after lusting after a certain character, then something like Harry Potter could be to blame if it weren’t for Harry Potter porn fanfictions.

It wouldn’t necessarily lead everybody else to black man porn either, but if they’re vulnerable to lust that getting romantically attracted to any Harry Potter or fictional character would still pose a problem. Something similar has happened to me before and I do lust, but I feel that’s the real problem with many publishers and fandoms these days and it’s not just a Harry Potter thing. It’s like how DC and Marvel put out swimsuit editions to purposefully arouse lust in their readers that it’s not a surprise why some of them would do online porn based on the characters they get romantically attached to, while I don’t think JK Rowling necessarily condones porn it’s something that never seemed to concern her much.

Despite how the prevalence of HP porn could learn to a lifelong lust problem for others in their formative years, like if you have a cousin who got addicted to gay porn from reading HP slash and/or was romantically attached to a certain character it’s not hard to see why Rowling herself ignored this, despite playing an indirect part in it through negligence. Like I said before, HP could lead somebody to the occult but also to other problems that they’re vulnerable to. Like if your cousin is vulnerable to lust and the occult that something like HP could exacerbate whatever existing problem and vulnerability they’re prone to as children, like if they were lusting before then HP porn only worsens it.

I had to bring up the porn problem since for some people, HP slash could be their gateway drug to gay porn and it would be true for my cousin or anybody else in my family. Harry Potter isn’t always a gateway drug to the occult on its own, Harry Potter’s attendant fandom could be a gateway drug to lust if it enables people to go further in their romantic attractions to a certain character. Especially when it comes to the existence of HP porn that if an HP fan stumbles upon it, they could get hooked on it and all the more if they’re romantically attracted to any HP character. It could be true for one relative who’ll admit she got into black man porn because of being attracted to one HP character.

It could be any other HP character and the problem would remain the same for as long as the danger remains.

[silvertoyshop]

Pottermania: The Irresistible Allure of Harry Potter Funko Pops in South Africa

Few franchises have captivated fans' hearts worldwide as much as Harry Potter in the enchanted world of collectables. Apart from captivating readers and moviegoers, J.K. Rowling's beloved series has given rise to an infinite variety of merchandise, including the ever-famous Funko Pops. Due to their distinctive approach to bringing a small portion of the wizarding world home, fans find a Harry Potter Funko Pop South Africa to be incredibly alluring.

The Magical Appeal of Harry Potter Funko Pops

Harry Potter Funko Pops are miniature artworks that pay tribute to beloved characters and important Wizarding World events, going beyond simple collectable figures. From Dumbledore, Hagrid, and Snape to Harry, Hermione, and Ron, each Funko Pop figure is meticulously sculpted to capture the essence of its corresponding character, making them a must-have for fans of all ages.

Collecting Magic: The Thrill of the Hunt

Finding Harry Potter Funko Pops in South Africa can be an exciting adventure for many collectors. Discovering the elusive figure to finish a set or add to an ever-expanding collection is a thrilling pastime that connects enthusiasts, whether they pursue it locally through retailers, online, or at collector events.

Exclusive Finds & Limited Editions

Among the many reasons to collect Harry Potter Funko Pops in South Africa is the chance to find rare and limited edition figures. To increase the excitement and uniqueness of these collectables, numerous local businesses and internet merchants provide exclusive variations that are not found anywhere else.

Creating Magical Displays

Putting together enchanted displays that highlight the Wizarding World is one of the pleasures of collecting Harry Potter Funko Pops. To arrange their Funko Pops in a way that immerses them in the stories and films, fans typically construct inventive cases, shelves, and displays.

Connecting with Fellow Fans

More than just a pastime, collecting Harry Potter Funko Pops allows you to connect with other fans and experience the magic of the Wizarding World. The South African collector community is lively and friendly, with members who share similar interests and engage in activities such as figure trading, fan gatherings, and online forums.

The Perfect Gift for Fans

Furthermore, Funko Pop Harry Potter is the perfect gift for fans of the series. No matter what fandom they are celebrating—a birthday, holiday, or other special occasion—these collectables will make them happy and bring a little magic into their lives.

The Allure of Exclusivity

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Conclusion

The craze for Harry Potter Funko Pops South Africa is still going strong as people continue to fall in love with them. Fans all over the country have become enchanted with these tiny figures, which makes them a valued addition to any collection, regardless of whether the collector is motivated by nostalgia, a love of wizardry, or just the sheer joy of collecting. So, whether you are a devoted Potterhead, or you are just getting into the magic, Harry Potter Funko Pops will enchant you with their captivating charm.

[coolblackmetal666]

It's kind of weird how pottermania has completely been rewritten due to jkr's transphobia. Like, people talk about millennials being obsessed with children's books that they never grew out of as if every adult on the planet wasn't reading harry potter in the 2000s. I honestly don't know why harry potter became such a big deal, and i used to be a potterhead, but as others have said it wasn't due to some great marketing push. It happened really weirdly organically.

[unsentimentaltranslator]

As someone who was a teen in the 90s, this is a return to form, really. In the 80s and 90s, the teen book scene was dominated by a number of ghostwritten megafranchises that we read because of the name, not the quality (in fact, in the late 2000s there was a trend of snarking on those books when we collectively realised how poorly written they were.) From what I can see, JKR single-handedly disrupted that trend with the Pottermania her books sparked. Then we had the YA fantasies of the 2000s-2010s and now we've got booktok, which is the spiritual successor of the "trend over quality" books of the 80s-90s.

I will say that there are YA writers doing good things today. Teri Terry is good, and Cait Corrain's nasty little stunt against her rivals backfired and garnered attention for a lot of fantasy books that appear to be being marketed for the story rather than catchphrases.

a lot of YA and fantasy stuff has always been a little cringe and silly but at least it used to be cringe from the heart instead of designed in a lab to get teens on tiktok to use a certain sentence from it

[psycho394]

Found this in Pinterest(not mine), and felt it criminal not to repost it. Lol, this is too good XD

Snape being a rapper, Slytherins be vibing