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Harry Freaking Potter

2011-07-15 · song · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

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

Continuing his yearly Harry Potter songs, Hank sings a letter to Harry Potter asking whether the final film is the end, thanks the series for his career, and answers that it isn't, because the fans are there for each other; then plugs Harry Potter Alliance contests, a charity book and his album.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Pre-recorded before LeakyCon: Hank's yearly Harry Potter songs since Accio Deathly Hallows, gratitude to the HP community

00:00:24 — Song 'Dear Harry Potter': is the final film it? Thanks for his career; 'this ain't it', the community is built to last

  • ★★ In the song Hank asks Harry Potter whether the final film is 'it', the last piece of a pie most fans have eaten all their adult lives. — 00:00:46 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★★ Hank sings that Harry Potter helped him learn guitar and launched his whole career, so he is hugely in its debt. — 00:01:10 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★★ Hank sings that it has been years since fans left Harry behind; they are here not for him but to watch, sing, make videos and above all be with friends, which will never end. — 00:01:56

  • ★★★ Hank answers 'this ain't it': the place is built to last, with more fun ahead than behind, and fans will love the books and each other until they die. — 00:02:21

    “We've got more fun in our future Than we have in our past”

00:02:55 — At LeakyCon: three cool things: HPA art and ideas competitions, a charity book of HP community reminiscences, his album Ellen Hardcastle

  • ★ Hank declines to describe LeakyCon: absentees would feel they are missing out, and words would not capture it for attendees. — 00:02:57
  • ★★ Hank announces two Harry Potter Alliance competitions (art and ideas) at ImagineBetter.org, $1,000 first prizes, top 20 judged by a panel including him, Jason Alexander, Anthony Head and Evanna Lynch. — 00:03:06 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Hank recommends a beautiful book of Harry Potter community reminiscences (Dear Mr. Potter, per the description) whose thesis his song borrowed; all proceeds fund HPA literacy work. — 00:03:24 · Harry Potter (book series)
  • ★★ Hank shows his album Ellen Hardcastle, thanks buyers and says he looks forward to making videos with their scripts. — 00:03:41

00:03:53 — Get-well wish to a very sick John; sign-off

  • ★ Hank tells John to feel better, says he is very sick right now, and hopes he will be well enough for Monday's video. — 00:03:53

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says Hank watched Deathly Hallows Part 2 the day before with die-hard fans, amid much crying, and thinks he actually hyperventilated near the end. — video description
  • ★ Hank calls seeing Deathly Hallows Part 2 a very important moment and plans to watch it again in a less emotionally charged room to be more analytical about it. — video description
  • ★★ Hank says LeakyCon has been amazing and he is about to go to a huge Nerdfighter gathering there. — video description · Nerdfighteria

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Mentioned

Central: Harry Potter (book series)

Also: People: Alan Rickman · Anthony Head · Daniel Radcliffe · Evanna Lynch · Jason Alexander

Works: Accio Deathly Hallows · Dear Mr. Potter · Ellen Hardcastle · Hank's 2011 Harry Potter song · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Organizations: The Harry Potter Alliance

Events: LeakyCon

Characters: Albus Dumbledore · Severus Snape

Only in the description or credits: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

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