A Girl With a Sword

rocking the library

Went to see Harry and the Potters tonight.

Harry and the Potters are actually both Harry Potter, actually tonight they said all of us were one big Harry Potter, but as for the band one of them is Harry in his fourth year (keyboard) and one is Harry in his seventh year (guitar). They rocked pretty hard. Oh, but first was Draco and the Malfoys. Draco explained that he was sad his dad was in prison, but when he was around it was hard for Draco because Mr. Malfoy would only let him listen to "Voldemort-approved" music, like Creed and Toby Keith, but now that he's in prison Draco is allowed to listen to lots of his Mom's old Muggle music, she loves Styx. He loves Guns N' Roses.

Harry and the Potters were crazy, I mean, they were serious about rocking the library. They started with Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock and then went through the songs about Harry's first and second years, then they sang songs about Cho and Ginny and Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge. (okay, this post got really long, you can't stop the rock, but you can hide it below the jump)

I don't know how, but the song about Ginny turned into this long story about how the Harrys (cause there's two of them) went up to Dumbledore's office and he said "there's something your parents left for you" and then he told them how Lily Evans had been in the school band and she'd been really good and he gave Harry fourth year her saxophone and then Harry seventh year was bummed because he'd had the saxophone, three years ago, but he didn't have it now and then Dumbledore said, no, it's alright, because actually when your father was at Hogwarts, aside from being a really good Quidditch player, he was also in a band, a punk band called The Marauders, who would play in the Room of Requirement, and he gave Harry year seven his guitar.

But it was confusing because they also told an alternate version of how it all started. Harry year four was studying and thinking and then Harry year seven burst into his room and Harry year four was understandably perturbed because he knew about time travel from his third year and he thought seeing his future self might lead to all kinds of problems and rifts in the space-time continuum and the delorian might not make it back to 1985! and Harry year seven said, no it's alright, I'm here and now we need to form a rock band! and so they hurried down to the Room of Requirement, because they required some musical instruments, and the room provided them with drums and keyboards and guitars and also with harpsichords and sitars, because it's very generous. So they started playing in the Hogwarts Underground Studio and they were a big hit, except some of the faculty didn't like it much so Dumbledore, being understanding, told them about this place in Hogsmead where his old metal band used to play and he hooked them up so they play there now.

But the best part of the concert, or a best part, was when they were like "well see, there's this movie that we like, a Muggle movie, called Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and we really identify with this movie because it's also about a band and this band has a prophecy about them too and they're going to save the world with rock 'n' roll . . ." They were definitely appealing to their twenties crowd, which was awesome, because I got all the jokes, but the high schoolers around me seemed kind of confused, which might have been part of why it was so funny.

Some of their songs were fun, but really what made the show was that they were totally into it and totally talking non-stop about their times at Hogwarts and their friends and "my literary foil" Malfoy, and how depressed they were the summer after their fourth year when none of their (two) friends would write to them. And it was great it was in a library too, because you know how I like partying in the library. And I realized that it's appropriate for Harry Potter, not just because they're books, but because, when you think about it, how do they go about solving most of the problems they have--research. Bam. I love research, and maybe I don't love libraries as much as I used to, but I think we can all get behind the idea of bringing books into the wilderness with you when you're on the run from the law because you might just forget something you were supposed to learn in history class, and where would you be then, without your research?

So yeah, good times, and check out their shows page because it's like reading a whole nother awesome chapter of Harry Pottery goodness, and I didn't really feel like going but I sure am glad I did.