Founder of Harry & the Potters with the-Woman-who-was-Snape – rep the colors and rock on!!!All right, confession time – I'd never been to a wizard rock concert until this June 21st, when I heard that Harry & the Potters, the first wizard rock band formed back in 2002, were coming to town!
Harry & the Potters ride the lightning!
The first I knew of it was I saw a few forelorn, loose pages of a local newspaper in the gutter on the way home. Except, one half of the page was headlined: "The Weekly Prophet". If you're like me, that last word is a neon signal, so I snatched the paper up and carted it home.
Potterheads of all ages get wild regardless of each others' eardrums.
Turned out there was a paper misprint. I rode miles north, only to find the free library concert was the previous day! However, I decided to skip the annual Solstice ritual and go to the one downtown, which I Slytherined my way into and was quite glad I did, because I met one of my friends and had much fun.
Wacky Potterhead merchandise
There were colors from all houses, but of course it was great fun to show off my incomparably Slytherin, handmade duds (not to mention the Emerald Phial necklace and snake-everything). I chatted a bit with a high school boy who was humoring his younger female cousin with "this wizard rock stuff" – he had a Slytherin tie on, and we mutually shouted, "Way to rep the colors!!"
I'm monitoring Galleons carefully lately, but I did buy a pin for a buck. Simple and direct in its message, it proclaims Potter enthusiasm and love of the magical, in the iconic words of young Severus Snape himself:
"It's real for us."
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