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HARRY POTTER SONG!

2010-11-17 · song · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Pop culture · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, timely hook, recurring series, self promotion

On the eve of the first Deathly Hallows film, Hank sings 'This Is Not Harry Potter': however much young adult fiction he reads, even good books and his brother's, nothing matches how Harry Potter made him feel.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; tired of the pre-movie media blitz, tickets bought on Fandango; Deathly Hallows Part 1 opens tomorrow; Song Wednesday

  • ★ Hank says he's tired of the pre-release media blitz for the film: he bought his tickets on Fandango four months ago. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank says the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out tomorrow night, he is very excited, and it's Song Wednesday. — 00:00:00 · Song Wednesday, Harry Potter (book series)

00:00:47 — Song 'This Is Not Harry Potter': YA books, his brother's books and Twilight all fall short of Harry Potter

  • ★★★ Hank sings that however much young adult fiction he reads, nothing makes him feel again the way Harry Potter did: everything he reads is not Harry Potter. (playful) — 00:01:22 · Harry Potter (book series) · first in: 2010-07-21, I Hung out with Snookie...Accidentally

    “It seems no matter what I read, I think this is not Harry Potter.”

  • ★★ Hank sings he was impressed with Frankie Landau-Banks, though her epic pranks don't compare with saving the world, and that 13 Little Blue Envelopes was fantastic but not the best book he has read. (playful) — 00:01:22

  • ★★ Hank sings that, no joke, he also reads books his own brother wrote, and they too are not Harry Potter. (playful) — 00:01:22 · John Green, Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Hank sings that he read Twilight in his darkest nights; Edward has a killing curse coming, and the name Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington alone beats anything in Breaking Dawn. (playful) — 00:02:39
  • ★ Hank sings that Diagon Alley beats Ankh-Morpork, President Snow is no Voldemort, and Lyra's parentage is a good plot twist, but none of it is Harry Potter. (playful) — 00:03:02 · Harry Potter (book series)

00:03:33 — HankGames: Hank will play and talk through Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, idea taken from Toby Turner; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says he will play the new Assassin's Creed while talking and post the videos at YouTube.com/HankGames, admitting he stole the idea from Toby Turner. — 00:03:33 · HankGames
  • ★★ Hank invites anyone who wants to watch him play Assassin's Creed to come by HankGames, hoping it will be somewhat entertaining. — 00:03:33 · HankGames

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank sings what he would give to feel again the way Harry Potter made him feel. — 00:00:47

    “I'd tattoo my head with a lightning bolt.”

  • Curled up with Twilight in his darkest nights, Hank wonders about Edward. — 00:02:39

    “Avada Kedavra the undead Cause Edward Carter totally has it coming”

  • Hank says he and Voldemort would both hate Edward, and turns to Hogwarts ghost Sir Nicholas. — 00:03:02

    “Mimsy Porpington is a character name that by itself is better than anything in Breaking Dawn”

  • Hank names the new Assassin's Creed game, whose subtitle is Brotherhood. — 00:03:33

    “Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 2.0. Isn't that what it's called?”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: HankGames · Harry Potter (book series)

Also: Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 (“Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 2.0”)

Works: 13 Little Blue Envelopes · Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (“Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 2.0”) · Breaking Dawn · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 · The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks · This Is Not Harry Potter · Twilight

Organizations: Fandango

Rituals: Song Wednesday

Concepts: young adult literature

Characters: Ankh-Morpork · Diagon Alley · Edward Cullen · Lyra Belacqua · Mrs Coulter · Nac Mac Feegle · Nearly Headless Nick · President Snow · Voldemort

Only in the description or credits: Horrible Fiction · Toby Turner

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