A Deep Dive into Potterheads

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[@stan_lego_eda]

Love ur videos!!

[@laynebrock2835]

This is a wonderful vid, love being apart of kurtistown!

[@velenadalby5948]

never been this early this is crazy, just wanted to say i’ve watched u for years and you genuinely make me laugh and uplift my mood so thanks for that

[@Felix-mt1zb]

Cool

[@xxMelaniexx]

The power of being a decent human. Seen a lot of recommendations from KZbinrs but now I'll actually try it.

[@junosswans]

I literally am working with a kindergarten kid who is named Hermione and when I was doing assessment with her I casually asked her, “so… your mother really loves reading huh?” And she gave the most tortured sigh I’ve ever heard from a kindergartener and said “yes…” Also she has a classmate named Sherlock which is a whole other iceberg lol

[@randomgirlxrulz]

I don't know why I'm surprised there are genuinely kindergarteners named after fandoms that I was in as a teenager, but wow, that shook me to my core. I wonder if these kids end up hating the stories they were named after?

[@anzaia2164]

To be fair, Hermione is a normal and quite pretty name. Yes, it is completely linked with Harry Potter today, but... At least her name is not Nymphadora.

[@AmyAberrant]

I feel bad for the teachers having to teach Sherlock, Hermione, Katniss, Draco, River Song, Daenerys Targaryen, Edward Cullen and Castiel

[@pollypocket2743]

@@AmyAberrant i was a camp counsellor and i had a kid in my group named khaleese after daenerys' title in GoT

[@MajorOctofuss]

@@AmyAberrant​​⁠all these names are still better than mchkeileigh or some shit

[@sileylav]

Kurtis didn't use the Barbie "balls" audio once when talking about the Golden Snitch. This is character growth

[@luminecyn5059]

I truly believe its a step back

[@caIyps0]

he also missed it on the part where he talked about his visit to the theme paarkk

[@blunderbass851]

Character regression

[@mmmoura869]

that made me sad fr

[@Loreme422]

In the wrong direction

[@vanillaplanifoliae]

i don't write fanfic but when i was younger, maybe 13 or 14, i did write a harry potter fanfic.. it was about the plants in the herbology classroom, for some reason all of them were sentient and they were having a little soap opera whenever nobody was in there

[@antioptimusparty]

That sounds cool as fuck

[@felixitations]

send link that sounds so cool

[@vanillaplanifoliae]

@@felixitations i don't have a link, i didn't post it anywhere :') i think it was on my middle/high school google drive

[@pooliewoolie]

honestly? I'd read the fuck out of that. It's that kind of fanfic that I enjoy the most, about the mundane (lmao) stuff happening at Hogwarts.

[@Ilovebirdgag]

Could you please maybe re-write it and then make it available? I'd definitely pay for that

[@jbjorgman8964]

Crying over the house you were assigned on the original Harry Potter website is a right of passage. I fully sobbed over being sorted into Slytherin because I thought it meant I was evil.

[@stellamariss3335]

I thought the same thing when I got slytherin 😂

[@theKobaltPossum]

Assigned Evil at sorting

[@barbecuedsimsbaby]

Hufflepuff bc I didn't like the colour scheme :( (I was 10 lmao)

[@MissDraiha]

Yeah but how obnoxious were the Ravenclaw girls? It's me, I'm one of them. I wasn't even a Potterhead, I was just realllly into being smart 😬

[@weluvvsam]

ME TOO

[@elainefundal8421]

His mustache looks like two capybaras kissing

[@thea2974]

thats crazy

[@cloudieo]

Love wins ❤️

[@Flame-rp6yq]

I can't unsee it now... yet I feel somehow blursed with this information

[@sourcandy-wf2ih]

...Why are you correct?

[@mspaint93]

​@@cloudieo that is so fkn dumb, I hate it made me laugh

[@massieblock9770]

i named both my kids after HP characters, but both are regular names that people wouldn’t know unless i told them. i love my little xenophilius and baby mundungus

[@elahejon6590]

😂omg I'm dead

[@TheBigDumBlock]

Hahaha i know somebody whos actual name is james potter

[@user-zf4kv9ou2i]

That's is fine

[@gadiderazne9025]

This comment literally made me laugh out loud 😂

[@mxngos7493]

HAHAHAHAHAHAA oh my goodness xd

[@sarcolinejesus]

my sixth grade teacher ms baker made her whole curriculum and classroom themed around harry potter. there were four tables and each quarter shed rotate the tables around the room but wed be the same houses. we had a point system and read up to the fourth book as a classroom. she also....made us play quidditch....at some point... the golden snitch was a kid she deemed "the fastest" and yes he had the tennis ball groin and yes we used "brooms" my favorite month in her class was actually when we studied greek culture! we had a toga party and designed pots or something. then we went back to harry potter. she made us our own wands with us out of hot glue, gems, and various earth toned paints. she actually was an amazing teacher!! she taught many valuable life skills like how to manage money and made us live on a fake budget for a day. she encouraged each of us to learn and be creative. i was in honor choir, our school music, and also won first place in the science fair all with her encouragement. she was a great teacher but her and the other 6th grade teacher just so happened to be massive potterheads 😭😭

[@lorigarry5585]

Wow! Amazing teacher

[@corporatecapitalism]

Literally my 5th grade language teacher did literally a every single one of these things

[@Lnalights634]

Same but mine was a terf and we never played quidditch.

[@denizkenger52]

You should’ve called someone a mudblood in her class for her reaction 🤣

[@orchdork775]

That sounds so fun!

[@deen4305]

fun fact, slytherin traits were basically all traits present in other houses just with synonyms that specifically had a negative connotation. These 11 year olds were all piled into a house that was filled with other kids from toxic households, told their best traits were these negative things, treated like the literal scum by other student's and teachers alike while they marinated in outdated mindsets shared by a bunch of not good people. And then we were supposed to believe that these kids CHOSE to side with the dark lord. Hats off to JKR honestly for legit convincing people that 11 years olds were inherently bad people.

[@StitchedUpPunkette]

That kind of sounds how the majority of nazis are made 😅

[@tortle216]

call me crazy but i don't think writing fanfiction should be tiered deeper on the iceberg than naming your child after a harry potter character

[@xXluluchanelXx]

not crazy, lol. I read all the books and wrote a handful of fanfics and the idea of a tattoo or a child named after a character is bonkers. I barely owned a scarf for merch, that's it

[@tridocao143]

ok

[@susannahs8533]

Well depends what character. If you name it Harry or Ron or something I think that’s fine, because those names have plausible deniability

[@melbapeach162]

​@@xXluluchanelXxhow do you 'barely own a scarf'? Surely you either owned a scarf or you didn't 🤔

[@kinglayton5430]

@@melbapeach162 that made me laugh but i'm sure they meant that they 'merely' owned a scarf, not 'barely'

[@mashymallow1242]

The literal worst HP thing I've ever seen was a website that was just a countdown until Emma Watson turned 18 so it would be "okay" to sexualize her. Even to this day, I feel so bad for her because of how gross people are about her.

[@aeddiefarmer]

The HP community definitely sexualised underage characters a lot in its history, but the grossness about actresses reaching age of consent I think is more of a tabloid thing than a fandom thing. They used to do it in the UK all the time but with 16 because its the legal age of consent here.

[@yt_krg]

well, given by how she looks right now they would just keep sexualizing her younger self

[@screwyourhandle]

​@@aeddiefarmer It's true, there are so many cases of that happening to female celebrities, off the top of my head I'm thinking Mary Kate and Ashley or Britney Spears

[@radiofloyd2359]

Jesus Christ is that disgusting.

[@lhaviland8602]

Oh god I had a roommate who was one of those guys. We were way younger than the peak age group too which made it extra weird, he would've been like 10 when the last movie came out

[@andthatskarma5491]

THE TWIN TOWERS FAN FICTION HAD ME LITERALLY CRYING. THAT IS SO FOUL.

[@zurirobinson2749]

Ok so... my brain actually formed an association between 9/11 and Harry Potter, I believe because the main characters were one-year-old babies while Voldemort was terrorizing the wizarding world and I was one year old on 9/11. This was when I started reading the books circa 2007, around the same time I first learned about 9/11, so it was probably just "two things taking up a lot of space in my brain connected by extremely loose thread". I felt better when I thought that 7 year old me was the only person who associated 9/11 and Harry Potter. The fact that this was probably written by someone old enough to know better-

[@selinahilmes]

I love how one of Kurtis' curls forms an S shape when he talks about the Snape Wives and the S shapes they see

[@sznnitty]

I remember being in third grade and my friends, all Gryffindors, made me take the sorting quiz. I took it, got Slytherin, and they ignored me for a week.

[@alexk7937]

hahahahaha I’m so sorry that must’ve sucked hahahahahah

[@StrayKisswHobyStrayKids]

Slytherin gets such a bad rep honestly, if you've played Hogwarts Legacy, you'll know that folks from other houses are also d*cks, not just Slytherins. Feels shitty to have one house be so hated, 2 basically ignored and one hailed as the best but that one had f*cking Wormtail, like tf ?

[@Thisallsucks-andimright]

​@@StrayKisswHobyStrayKidspeople just don't know how to make a difference between Slytherins in the franchise, and what Slytherins would be IRL. In HP, nearly every Slytherin is bad so it's understandable you hate them in the books/movies, but IRL it's just a type of personality, it doesn't necessarily mean you're evil (just like being a Gryffindor doesn't mean you're nice). Sad that most people don't understand this

[@StrayKisswHobyStrayKids]

@@Thisallsucks-andimright Yeah I feel you there

[@bluecloud4652]

It just shows how not well written or explored the concept of houses is. They've become boxes to put people in based on personality traits. The same issue that young adult novels have.

[@jaredmccarty1441]

My brother's girlfriend is a Disney Adult AND a Potterhead, and one time she forced me to take the sorting quiz. I got Hufflepuff but she insisted I was a Gryffindore because SHE was a Hufflepuff and we're too different to be in the same house. She was so mad at me for getting Hufflepuff she didn't talk to me for two full days. She was 31 at the time.

[@venusvstheearth]

Normal adult behavior

[@lapain4]

How old is she now?

[@taenimin]

what a loser 😭 tfff

[@TheKavo97]

Dump her.

[@dcgumbrecht]

My problem with Harry Potter is that there is only four groups you can hypothetically sort yourself into, while the goated Percy Jackson chads have a seemingly infinite amount of gods they can identify themselves with, which is a lot more fun than the times in elementary school we had Harry Potter day and I always got raven claw and went “what the fuck is ravenclaw” but with Greek gods you already know what’s uppppp

[@layla555665]

This reminds me of that seminar that my university was offering for the teachers degree students that was all about analysing an explicit, adult fanfiction about Draco and Harry. You actually got credit points for that.

[@bingospingoultimate]

EXCUSE ME?????? 😭😭😭

[@causal_internetuser]

That's horrific

[@peachesmontclaire]

lmao me writing Drarry fanfic at 18 would have loved this course.

[@-Est3lle-]

Bro, as an avid fanfic reader, I would love to do this course

[@gmoney2860]

''if i was an 11 yr old magic boy'' is my new favourite phrase

[@evancarvalho2195]

I don't think writing fanfiction should be on the same level as actual *delusion*

[@gemdumet3125]

I think what he meant was the type of fanfiction in which you insert yourself into the story which I wouldn't say it's too bad unless you're also past the other levels and legitimately have an all consuming harry potter obsession. I don't think he meant fanfiction by itself is the issue but when it's paired with the rest lol

[@ville__]

I think what he meant was the type of fanfiction in which you insert yourself into the story which I wouldn't say it's too bad unless you're also past the other levels and legitimately have an all consuming harry potter obsession. I don't think he meant fanfiction by itself is the issue but when it's paired with the rest lol

[@detBits]

The delusion of being trans.

[@niayordanova8555]

Honestly I think he meant shifting fanfiction and the sorts

[@oil2921]

@@ville__word for word.

[@morganorwhatever]

I can’t imagine even the biggest fan of Harry Potter naming their kid after Newt Scamander’s assistant, Bunty. You might as well name them Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way because these characters are equally relevant to the canon

[@Rayne-rn5qy]

BAHA STOP

[@EmissaryofWind]

Enoby is way more iconic than any character in the Fantastic Beasts series

[@sockbomb6802]

EBONY DARK'NESS DEMENTIA RAVEN WAY HOLY SHIT

[@scourgatory]

i whole-heartedly support this

[@blissfullydead]

STOPP I was hoping Kurtis would bring up My Immortal lmao

[@spookyoctober]

The Carl Boom Boom portion absolutely fucking killed me. 💀

[@psychogrungebabe]

As someone who works at universal the most toxic potterheads are the actors in the theme park 👀

[@MarquisOfHartington]

Please please say more 👀

[@goldenavocado]

The cutting to Sirius' face every time had me dying 💀

[@Andromida]

ORV PFP?!

[@ville__]

ORV PFP?!

[@yotecat7907]

ORV PFP?!

[@TheLandBeyond_Creations]

Just like Sirius

[@cami6130]

Except one time when he DIDN’T and my ocd is gonna kill me

[@harriwithani9203]

“Snape seems to be particularly useful during burglaries” is a straight up mad sentence

[@aescatic]

I honestly thought it was gonna be Snape helping them commit burglary, not helping them survive while someone else is doing it FJEKDKEKDK

[@jessreynolds445]

I need it on a shirt immediately

[@Quadrenaro]

OMG are you a British?

[@VtheVictorious]

literally sounds ai generated lmao

[@supertoddtv]

The way I actually burst out laughing 😂😂

[@berlinbohn5355]

didnt know kurtis would talk about my fucking favorite peice of fanfiction in the world, so when he said all the young dudes i had to do a double take i was so excited

[@suzzz36]

Talk about jumpscare

[@CAHAHAH]

BRO THE SIRIUS THING KEEPS GETTING ME 😭

[@Knolch]

I´ll name my kid Dobby and never give him any clothing until it´s 18th birthday, at which point I´ll give it an old single sock, tell it "You´re free" and throw it out of the house. That´s true fan dedication!

[@goldenaxolotl9718]

“It”???????

[@probablyhuman9947]

@@goldenaxolotl9718THATS the thing you point out 😭?

[@dogdoes6165]

​@@goldenaxolotl9718 Silly😊 we just don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet😊😊❤❤

[@MasterCode86]

@@dogdoes6165 then learn proper nouns: it for things, they for gender ambiguousness. You do not call someone it, you call something it.

[@TrundleMacDennis]

​@MasterCode86 hey bud. They are gonna name it dobby and not give it food and kick it out at 18. It's not a human at that point. It's an it.

[@rubsy5222]

Fun fact, I named my daughter after a Harry Potter character! My daughter Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way is the light of my life ❤️❤️❤️

[@loewenssecretchannel]

I'm in love with you.

[@rubsy5222]

@@loewenssecretchannel sorry I only love goffs😕

[@Seraphina93]

I named mine Starlight Prizzle Prazzle III

[@y3np3ws]

I love you for this reference omg-

[@audreyiiishotterthananyani1305]

Unironically Chad behavior

[@JanieBee]

25:49 imagine using this logic for anything else. “So we’ve been telling our child since she was 3 that she’s immortal to teach her not to take everything at face value. How could we have known she would try to jump off a roof”

[@flwrsofbffnry]

man it's been a while since i've watched kurt and i forgot how genuinely interesting the videos are. my attention span is next to zero but i literally just sat here for forty minutes straight doing absolutely nothing but watching this video man you gotta be using some potterhead magic i swear

[@tizzleyizzle]

I can't believe we had a Harry Potter iceberg mentioning fanfiction WITHOUT talking about My Immortal. A classic masterpiece smh

[@Ziaberry]

It's because he's a prep 🙄

[@anka2468]

Enoby and her vampire boy fends Harry porter and Draco Malcom

[@choc_cos]

That's because it needs its own video

[@davibraga9279]

This always remind me about Internet Historian's video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJfLaJaNh9ekfJY&ab_channel=InternetHistorian

[@registeredjopper]

proves hes a poser prep

[@opal952]

I love this but there is no way you put WRITING FANFICTION on a lower level than naming your child Lucius Malfoy 😭😭😭

[@cg6176]

Writing any story is hard. The thing about fanfiction... is that even crap work gets out there. And of course it's the crap work that is more meme-able than fanfics that are actually good quality. As all things tend to do.

[@svarakissoon1189]

deadass

[@KirbyCom]

Like a minor hobby that a lot of people do regardless of fandom versus subjecting a REAL HUMAN CHILD to a whole childhood of bullying be frfr

[@kristena8442]

And lower than the man who legally changed his own name to Lucius and attempted to legally adopt Tom Felton 😂 Like I know fanfic can be delulu but we're not that delulu. I don't think HP is real? That's not what fanfic is 🙈

[@ic236]

And below tattoos!!

[@r3d040]

As a fanfic writer (not for the hp community, I would never), we definitely don’t deserve to be below *naming* your kid Lucious Malfoy 💀

[@ArdillaINC]

Genuinely curious but why as a fanfic writer you would never write HP fanfics ?

[@r3d040]

​@@ArdillaINC It doesn't really interest me for one, but also I find that the hp fanbase can be really hostile and I just don't really want to get myself involved in that. Of course, the same thing can be said for the fandoms I *do* write for (genshin, bsd, etc.), but personally writing for the hp community is something that has never, and will never interest me. Another thing is that yes, while writing for the fandom does not directly give jk rowling anything, it still brings attention to it. I know the point about separating art from the artist, but rowling is just...such a bit ch that as a trans man I cannot bring myself to interact with her work in any way shape or form.

[@ArdillaINC]

@@r3d040 got it. SO it’s just not story that draws you in. Fair enough. I thought it was something more specific to the characters or something like that. I have never heard of the shows you mentioned but I can imagine that smaller fandoms must have less hostility because I do agree that bigger fandoms tend to have too many controversies and internal bs

[@r3d040]

@@ArdillaINC I mentioned one game, Genshin Impact, and an anime called Bungo Stray dogs. Both definitely have some toxicity (especially genshin because damn, do some people get worked up about which hot men you make kiss), but neither have had such a societal impact as hp did (though genshin is pretty large, and ships from both fandoms made it onto the top of ao3 this year). Also, a lot of the characters are underage, and even though I myself am a minor, the type of content I write is not something I'd particularly like to write about with underage characters

[@-Est3lle-]

I agree. Also, hello! I want to ask, what's your username for fanfiction writing? I want to read some of your works! Is it an ao3 account or a wattpad account or what?

[@ChakkyCharizard]

"people online think draco malfoy is hot" okay, that's not THAT weird... "...including in the parts of the movies where the actor that plays him is like, 13-17..." oh. Oh. OH.

[@Rachel-og8jy]

On a college campus I visited, they boasted having a Quidditch team and at one point having a Snitch that could do parkour, which allowed that person to literally climb buildings around campus to avoid the Seekers. If that tale was true, probably the best Snitch player to exist.

[@wowieitssam9457]

Lmao my college has a damn Quittitch team too. If I ever get the time, I may check it out lol.

[@emilygillette4329]

My college does too I sat next to them at a club fair. They rebranded to quad ball to distance themselves from jk Rowling. I'm not sure if quad ball is national or just my school

[@katie1921]

⁠​⁠@@emilygillette4329the Quadball rebranding happened last year and has been adopted internationally. When I was introduced to the sport I was told one of the basic rules is that teams have to be fully gender inclusive, so it’s no wonder the sport’s governing body wanted nothing to do with JKR lol

[@ville__]

My college does too I sat next to them at a club fair. They rebranded to quad ball to distance themselves from jk Rowling. I'm not sure if quad ball is national or just my school

[@jaysontatum01]

probably the only person who ever went to the tryouts & WANTED to be Snitch 😂

[@0gracefulgirl0]

Kurtis, buddy, there is no way reading all 7 books is on the same level as getting a Harry Potter tattoo or being on a Quidditch team. So many people read all those books 😅

[@foxinabox5103]

Or writing self insert fanfic to naming yourself after a HP character

[@moonlit_sky127]

or liking fantastic beasts in the same level as believing hogwarts is real 💀

[@highdefinition450]

yea reading the books should have been in the first tier lol

[@DeeFig66]

@@highdefinition450 Agreed

[@dreamworldqt6904]

Sounds like something someone on that level would say 🤨

[@Aritis]

Ngl I feel like if Percy Jackson was as successful movie-wise, it would be the exact same, there really is no difference lmao

[@Imaginary_Friend_]

Percy Jackson is definitely the harry potter of gen z, but gen z has way more chill than millennials when it comes to shit like this

[@silverx_1848]

Nobody outside of america gives a shit about PJ, it's not even on the playing field. Twilight has more of a chance than catching up 😂

[@Aritis]

@@silverx_1848 I dunno about that, I'm Irish but in all fairness I could count on one hand how many other Irish people I know that read Percy Jackson

[@sourgummycake]

honestly yeah some pj fans get cringy as all hell but as far as i know the author isnt a nazi that’s funding a potential genocide of lgbt people and is one of the most relevant figures in trans hatred so i think they’re okay for now

[@jordanlacicero8005]

every time i go to make fun of potterheads i remember when i was 13 and genuinely believed i was a demigod and that i needed to go to camp half blood and i shut up

[@Keyboardsmash143]

The way Percy Jackson shaped me as a child is wild 😔

[@deadcrave]

genuinely believed he was going to be talking about potheads

[@personman2346]

So did I lmao

[@stan_lego_eda]

😭😭😭

[@christiebreeechelon]

I thought people who make pottery. Ghost style.

[@vixy2321]

Same

[@itskurapikasfacenotsailorm]

SAMEE😭

[@Arvak]

The video of Draco taking FIVE YEARS to be able to hold his girlfriend's hand absolutely killed me 🤣

[@FeministCatwoman]

That tiktok video RUINED the beauty of the song "Memories of Sardinia" ... HOW DARE THEY 😭☹☹

[@ChamomileT]

Extra funny because her and some guy must’ve had a conversation about filming it like “hey will you help me record a video where you pretend to be draco malfoy’s hand? And I pretend we’ve been dating for years and keep trying to hold your hand? And that ‘draco’ takes 5 entire years of dating to finally even hold my hand?” Then they must’ve plan and practice how they’d record it. Then they’d set up the lighting. And probably record it a few times to get it _just right._ Then they had to edit it. Then caption it. And post it as if we’re real. I mean I just find the whole chain of events that must’ve led up to the video being posted to be quite funny to imagine, although I feel like I’m expressing it poorly lmao

[@M4__1n]

@@ChamomileTthat sounds bad but there are ppl who do that but just themselves, so it’s just extra sad, having to film and edit a video of yourself pretending that your hand is a different persons hand

[@grwgracie]

Petition for kurtis to do a deep dive into swifties

[@skiivz]

I don’t believe in shifting, but I love lucid dreaming and setting that dream in a certain universe, that’s really fun. I love how you separated all the weird fanfics from atyd

[@kirby12crystals20]

I can’t believe Kurtis made a section talking about Harry Potter fan fiction without mentioning the master piece that is my immortal

[@SunnyCida]

Missed opportunity of the century

[@scabgirlcreates]

I'm glad he didn't subject himself to it tbh

[@reb3578]

Strange Aeons who he mentioned has so much My Immortal content. I thought he'd at least drop an inside joke about it.

[@adamsmasher9769]

What is "my immortal"? Are you talking about the song or something else?

[@BananaGalaxy]

@@adamsmasher9769it's a fanfic that was so terribly awfully written some consider it parody

[@ARampagingHobo]

Crying after being sorted into Hufflepuff is Hufflepuff behavior

[@TofuDinoNugs]

Slytherin behavior is taking the test again until you get the result you want

[@Syd_Smith]

@@TofuDinoNugsoh I’m such as Slytherin it took me 4 try’s to get Gryffindor

[@darthmeticulous6901]

You know you’re a Ravenclaw… when the Sorting Hat gets a headache listening to all of your thoughts.

[@shivangitripathi161]

This isn't even the worse. There are fanfictions on Wattpad about the characters buying you and full on bdsm thingy like damn😭

[@AYVYN]

Every time I buy a combo at a restaurant, they ask me if I want a Wattpad girl with that

[@birdieinacage]

alternatively, the breakdancer brings me enough joy to battle a dementor

[@PaintingWinterMusic]

If you like a fictional story, you don't have to give it up when you get older--but it becomes problematic when you stop accepting the real world because you're stuck in a fantasy world.

[@PaintingWinterMusic]

Like with anything else, too much of something helpful starts to get harmful. Also--just going to shamelessly plug--I'm hoping some of you might like the music I make too :)

[@Felix-mt1zb]

Cool

[@prageruwu69]

exactly

[@Leoji0325]

Ye I think that's what he said pretty much, he just said that he personally left it behind

[@ramenaddict1676]

The majority of nerds know the difference between fantasy and reality, let people enjoy stuff ffs.

[@Pa5an1]

Maybe I’m biased as a former fanfic writer, but writing/reading fanfiction feels more like a level 1 activity. It was pretty much the first thing I’d do when I liked a piece of media 😅

[@josefinarivia]

Yea you're right, fan fiction is so common in every type of media. Even the actual doctor who showrunners have called their respective seasons fan fiction. And Dante Alighieri's divine comedy and especially Inferno is honestly self insert fan fiction. And this doesn't make it any less, it's completely valid as any other type of book or novel. It's odd that it sometimes is considered less since there has been books that started out as fan fiction and are now established series.

[@Measuresderepo]

Same, when he’s thinking fanfiction he’s prolly thinking My Immortal…

[@axica5434]

this!

[@jamiegdubois]

Unfortunately, a lot of people view fanfic and people who write it as “cringey”, which is why is kinda has a bad reputation. I think the problem is that really bad fanfic that actually _is_ cringey is sometimes shared on the internet and people make fun of it and assume that is what all fanfic is like. Then you also have the fact that books and movies like 50 Shades and After are both based off fanfics and they also have a reputation of being “cringey”. Long story short: I don’t think the general public is that focused or even aware of the good fanfiction that exists; they only really know about weirder and badly written fanfics and just assume all fanfic is cringey UPDATE/EDIT: here is something else just to prove my point. I just found out that City of Bones (the first book in The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare) is allegedly, based off a HP fanfic. But that book, and the series as a whole, has been fairly successful, so hardly anyone talks about its origins.

[@a.w_.]

Yeah I feel like it’s a pretty common teenager thing

[@lilythesilly]

i'm late to this video i know and i know no one is going to see this but the bit at 26:20 reminded me of a line from one of kurtis's minecraft videos from like two-ish years ago; i don't remember which video but i do have a screen recording where he says, and i quote, "this is like plato's allegory of the cave, but instead of people in a cave it's sort of a panda in my house" and it's one of my favorite lines ever and i doubt anyone else remembers it but i think of it all the time. just had to get that out there

[@miamaria7397]

as someone who has rewatched that series multiple times, i know exactly what you mean! that line is delivered in such a subtle, funny way

[@hoo7797]

I remember looking up heartbeat sounds on KZbin and the comments under all the videos (ASMR-esque videos of someone's heartbeat) were full of people from the Shifting community saying they used the audio to shift into the Harry Potter world. Granted, most commenters said they slept with a hard pillow and the heartbeat sound gave them the impression that the pillow was the chest of their favorite character and they were cuddling with them in their sleep (which ngl is kinda sad but I can't say I haven't done something similar). But there were some saying they straight up woke in one of the Hogwarts dormitories and they walked around the room, doing stuff 💀

[@A1D4Nk]

Pretty disappointed that the vibrating broom toy didn’t have its own iceberg level ☹️

[@cumboy69420]

what

[@femboy_fatale69420]

The WHAT 😰

[@ghostfornow2917]

@@femboy_fatale69420There was a toy broomstick that vibrated to simulate movement so you could pretend you were flying. If I’m remembering correctly it quickly became popular with girls and then very quickly was removed from stores.

[@femboy_fatale69420]

@@ghostfornow2917 lmfao how did that even get approved in the first place 😭

[@elizabethbrown2074]

NO BC I REMEMBER THIS TOY AND LET ME TELL YOU. AS A CHILD IT WAS EYE OPENING

[@TamaSquad]

A near 50 minute vid from Kurtis talking about Harry Potter is something I never knew was absolutely needed in my life

[@alexg9830]

REAL

[@huntern4454]

I definitely did

[@user-yy6wp9ng1k]

My first thought while seeing the thumbnail 😮

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Agreed

[@HaintblueRee]

RIGHT! I was DOA when he started doing the patronus bit🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@teresasikes6739]

33:15 If Snapewives truly believed that Harry Potter was written by JK Rowling because she was channeling Snape, would that mean that Snape knew what happened at the Dursleys, or really anywhere that he wasn’t, or was(n’t) informed of?

[@VicariousReality7]

Theres no room for compromise when dealing with people who are so insane as to defend major mutilation for a belief.

[@Wellworm]

Ash seems so sweet. There's a huge difference between Potterheads who are kind genuine people engaged in a world they love, and...well...Snapewives.

[@kellenknight1421]

I know hearing about the snapewives can be initially disconcerting, but they deserve more understanding then they get. KZbinr, biz barclay, has an amazing video on the subject. It's pretty long, but definitely worth the time.

[@brasilo64]

Agreed, but the interview wasn't really about Potterheads. It was just focussed on the project they're doing, which is great but not really interesting in the context of the video. Especially if you're not a fan of Harry Potter and are watching the video to laugh or learn more about a weird community

[@rx500android]

Oh my god the snapewives

[@joelthehigh]

@@brasilo64propoganda

[@phoebus8121]

Yeah snivellus sucks stan James Potter

[@tylerbrown2899]

It was a long, hard journey to become the best snitch, but the recognition really makes it worthwhile.

[@TissueCat_]

underrated comment

[@Random-sk6hm]

You really thought I wouldn't find you huh? I'm coming for you in my crush's bedroom

[@Idkhowtoread]

Bye I knew someone named Tyler brown 😭 he did not match this vibe tho lmao

[@neondennon]

@@Idkhowtoreadwell this is the 2,899th Tyler Brown

[@ville__]

underrated comment

[@L3m0n_sh0rk]

I was so expecting him to pull out my immortal

[@bingospingoultimate]

my immortal is a CLASSIC

[@Mani-pi3ou]

I was a Casual/Genuine fan (no tatoo, lol) and honestly it feels like a shameful thing now. When she showed us her true TERF self, the potterhead within me sort of died. I'm glad I never saw the play and will never watch the TV show no one asked for. I can't deny I love and still enjoy the films because I love the cast and crew. I refuse to let their work be wasted. I read the books like once...they aren't amazingly written literature. Seperating the art from the artist is tough but the best way is to buy no merch, watch nothing new and omg do not read her god-awful detective series. Also omg do not defend her!

[@briandavid7849]

Jk Rowling is fundamentally right.

[@astrowolvez]

@@briandavid7849she’s not.

[@briandavid7849]

@@astrowolvez Explain. All of human history is on my side

[@missmaddie311]

No shot that fanfiction is weirder than playing quidditch on a college team and trying to adopt Tom Felton 🤣

[@frida8992]

lmao yeah, fanfic is seen as such an extreme thing for some reason. i feel like that's probably the reason people take crack fanfics so seriously and don't immediately assume it's a joke.

[@sun_cattle5008]

I mean in all fairness he did clarify that it was about Weird fanfiction, like the pedo ones or the kind where you hope to God the author isn't being fr (they are deadass), which tbh, that's between them and their mental health professionals. But yeah there is absolutely a genre of fanfic that would be lower on an hp iceberg than failing to adopt an movie character/actor.

[@frida8992]

@@sun_cattle5008 yeah, that's true, but he also used the 9/11 fic as an example. Tbf I don't know anything about it, but that to me seemed like an obvious joke fanfic (if it isn't I agree it's fucking weird hahah)

[@sun_cattle5008]

@@frida8992 yeah the example that he used was definitely either crack or just a British writer, but those AO3 trenches tho brother, I've literally begged for someone to be joking only to find out about a newly invented kink (and that's non-monetizable)

[@mikeydubbs8565]

STOP FLAMMING DA STORY PREPZ OK! odderwize fangs 2 da goffik ppl 4 da good reveiws! FANGS AGEN RAVEN!

[@bubblewarpedrj]

Fanfictions should be much higher on the iceberg, they're really not weird, there are fanfictions out there that are far better than the actual books. Even My Immortal is a masterpiece in its own right 😂

[@robbiewilson9675]

Just waiting on Ebony Darkness Raven Way fancontent.... theres gotta be cosplays of her at HP events, right?

[@mothmanatee2326]

just requires a lot more effort to write that stuff than the average person is willing to dedicate their time and research to, so i think that's why it comes off as a more dedicated fan thing

[@hemingshark327]

if you buy into the idea that my immortal is tongue-in-cheek it gets unironically better than the original books

[@ShipperTrash]

And also fanfiction can't hurt other people as it's not forced upon others. Usually ppl who create this stuff put warnings and actively protect it from those who can be uncomfortable. Even dark fanfiction has its role, I understood that even as a child, the only time I was affected by it is the first time I ever read a fanfic and I thought it was canon. It was for a silly cartoon called Angel's Friends and it had gore, death and pregnancy and I remember crying because I thought the character really died. Then I googled what fanfiction is. And, I mean, movies I saw as a much younger kid with my family present affected me much harder than any fanfiction could. And reality is what can actually actually hurt you. So ye, I think It should be much higher than harry potter names and actors harassment. Like, come on, can we care about real people a bit more???

[@duckonsteroids]

​@@robbiewilson9675who tf is ebony darkness raven way

[@thekirstenempire]

Nah dude harry potter fanfiction is like level 1-2 any series ever will have fanfiction *its an unstoppable force*

[@StomeAura]

Hufflepuff’s thing is actually pretty cool. The thing about the other houses are that their traits are pretty easy to name on the surface. Like Griffyndor being courageous, Ravenclaw being intelligent, and Slytherin being ambitious. It might not seem obvious but Hufflepuff is about being just. Take the battle of hogwarts for example. If I remember correctly, the two houses that mostly stayed back to help were Griffyndor & Hufflepuff. The thing is that we already know Griffyndor stayed because “Well of course, they’re courageous and brave!” Then what about Hufflepuff? Not all of them are courageous. However, they went anyways because it was the right thing to do.

[@ImTheRingLeader]

Kurtis please do the Twilight fandom next. I will literally pass away when you do your deep dive and find out there’s a huge portion of them who call themselves Rats 😂😂😂

[@bennyyyyyyyy3875]

HEHEHE RATTIES

[@quinnperry3197]

hello from the sewer

[@NickiRusin]

Rats Rats We Are The Rats

[@elixirofeli]

the ratties are everywhere 🤣

[@destinywilliams6635]

I am a twilight fan like a huge one WHO TF IS CALLING THEMSELVES RATS what does it even stand for

[@tsarinaballerina4]

personally i think having read the books multiple times and writing/reading fanfiction is like. the top of the iceberg; reading the books once should NOT be on the same level as playing irl quidditch kurtis pls😭

[@shirlycoh]

Yes, i was saying that as well! Reading the books more than once and reading fanfiction is not the same as getting an effing tattoo or having ur wedding harry themed 😭😭

[@RumerPriestly]

​@@shirlycohthere are people who have only seen the movies with deathly hallows tattoos 😅

[@shirlycoh]

@@RumerPriestly what why 😭😭

[@Staronat]

Or liking Fantastic Beasts and thinking Hogwarts and real and I'm a wizard 😭

[@wardrobewings8000]

Hard agree! I read and write HP fanfiction, but you wouldn't catch me near HP merch, let alone attending HP themed wedding ☠

[@paigeist]

I think I prefer deepdives when they're framed as "here's the good, the bad, and the ridiculous of this thing that I'm personally very invested in and knowledgeable of", like I gave up HP when JK Rowling started down the terf pipeline but I think these tiers are very obviously arranged by someone without an insider's perspective

[@krumelmonster1278]

With JK it's like with the makers of uno. Have you read the actual playing rules? They gave us something great and we take it from there to make it our own. Except the makers of uno aren't transphobic and discriminating..

[@aidanmahoney9865]

the four houses: good, bad, smart and fuckin *stupid*

[@Knolch]

Gryffindor is not good though, they are bullies and cheats since Dumblerode just gives them points for getting themselves nearly killed. Absolutely not fair, no way Ravenclaw would let that slide.

[@sky3_ow]

protagonist, antagonist, plot device, who fucking cares

[@milward4563]

Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders

[@MewtwoMaster]

jocks, nerds, racists and doormats

[@ilikevocaloid]

protags, antags, smartasses and dumbasses

[@665Sunshine]

The fact that Kurtis saw that grown woman crying in Harry Potter land, and his initial emotion was empathy and not cringe/disgust, means I’m a worse person than I thought.

[@Copperthefox]

Tbh for some people it’s a special moment be there like that cause it’s a childhood dream and especially with Harry Potter land you can say you have walked down diagon ally. For me personally the first time I went on the banshee flight ride at Disney I cried a little because it satisfied that childhood wish deep down inside me

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

Well, this _is_ Kurtistown, and you have to be nice to him. He's earned it! Imo he's proof that a guy (or girl, enby, or anyone else, for that matter) can be funny, & even take a few lil jabs, but still have super kind empathy, and not only still be a cool dude but be better for it. He's the best mayor in town! (Tbf idk how mayors work. Lol jk)

[@kyuubisgirl3232]

Same lmao I think it's weird to be THAT attached to fictional settings and especially characters.

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

​@@CopperthefoxThat's genuinely really sweet. :) Tbh, I kinda had a kneejerk reaction to that clip not of "cringe" but still a bit, er, like, "Ohh, that's a bit much, it's just a theme park." But that was instantly changed when Kurtis cut in, _not_ with ridicule (which would be mean), instead not only cutting her some slack, he actually gave it to her and put it in such a way that it seemed obvious. Like, yeah, she's happy, she's overcome with what seem to be good emotions and that's great for her. And that's true compassion, so props to Kurtis, genuinely, for leading by example. (And I know he's not going to see these posts about him; I'm not trying to get in his good favour or whatever. It's just every time I see a guy be casually awesome like that, I notice - c/o built-up frustration from all the years of "cringe compilations" ridiculing people just being happy & having a good time. Plus the weird, worse direction those folks took. [I mean straight to Hell, with their various coloured "pills" & what not.])

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

@@kyuubisgirl3232 I think it's likely tied into childhood memories; fiction is an escape for many people, especially children, and those are your formative years when a lot of stuff happens. I doubt she just saw an "S" shape somewhere. ;)

[@hellofrominside8524]

27:11 "Holy shit dude that's wild." -Me, the guy who has his Avatar element in his Tinder bio.

[@mythsaga180]

My mom read me the books as a child and always reminded me that it wasnt real, because i had a habit of believing everything, especially things with magic. I cried when i didnt get my hogwarts letter because i truly believed i would. I have schizophrenia now so its safe to say i wasnt exactly in a position to know whats real or not. These people should know

[@erikburke7210]

The fanfiction about Hermione saving Ron from 9/11 legitimately feels like an Oneyplays bit.

[@downwordspiralofpiss]

Please please, tell me the name or link it to me, that sounds so fucking funny

[@finitalinda649]

​@@downwordspiralofpissplease I fucking need to read that, I love and read romione things but that's too much

[@parkchimmin7913]

Y’all the fanfic is titled “Tumbling Towers” also I love how the warning at the beginning of the story says that they want to “pay tribute to the day in a Harry Potter related way.” And then they follow it up with “so… please enjoy and NO FLAMES.” Iconic.

[@jase276]

"HARRY, TURN ON THE TELE! ANY CHANNEL!"

[@erikburke7210]

​@@jase276LUNA THEY HIT THE PENTAGON

[@ray428]

I always saw it that Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were opposites because they were like practical/logical vs emotional/empathetic

[@imaneclair4836]

that makes sense! and honestly hufflepuff vs. slytherin and ravenclaw vs. gryffindor r more opposites anyway imo

[@velvetvulpix]

That’s a good point but wasn’t ravenclaw also supposed to be creative ? That’s what I always associated with it

[@velvetvulpix]

@@imaneclair4836that’s also a good point

[@hoppy23]

​@velvetvulpix raven claw is wisdom they are smart and studious but the hat doesn't actually put you in the house you fit in best it puts you in the house you want to be in truly in your heart example Hermione is a clear ravenclaw in action and personality but she aspired to be brave and looked up to bravery so the hat put her in Griff

[@kaitlynmorgan4613]

but the thing is, being logical and emotional arent exclusive from each other. u can say think "logically i should ignore this person for x reasons, but my heart doesnt want to do that because of y, so itll be difficult to do for me" yk?

[@rosemadder5547]

I was 11 when Harry Potter was available here, and immediately got it from the school library. I got to grow up with Harry, nearly the same age 😊 It helped me so much through my abusive childhood home life ❤

[@Gundamguy-py3ir]

We need an iceberg like this but for Star Wars. That shit would be insane. So many Disney adults are now shifting to star wars because of the sequels.

[@dylanhempinstall3136]

i played quiddich at my middle school! they made me be the golden snitch, cause i was pretty small. instead of having to get anything off me, i counted as the entire golden snitch, so other students had to full body tackle me. so imagine you're a principal at a middle school, and you go into the yard at reeces. and one of your teachers is watching casually as a group of nerds tackle a small disabled child over and over again with broomsticks between their legs

[@Witchy_Hoo]

That sounds lowkey terrifying 😭

[@AlienKidVid]

Did you guys larp too?😅

[@audreyiiishotterthananyani1305]

That's horrifying dude :(. Sorry you had to deal with that.

[@sarahholland9292]

Where di you live? This is an awesome activity for strange children

[@thelestrangelair]

Sounds kinky? Which is wrong. LOL.

[@JaycieSLove]

Honestly I think making a thirst trap of an actor who was actually 13-17 at that time is a much larger issue than thirsting over the underage character

[@axolotl9861]

That's the exact same issue

[@nikis2987]

@@axolotl9861 Not really. One is dealing with a real person (the actor), and the other is dealing with the concept of a fictional character who doesn't exist in real life. If you grew up reading hp, it would be pretty normal to have a crush on a character. Making thirst traps of a real teenager is definitely more concerning.

[@Songmorning]

@@nikis2987 Yeah, it's like having a crush on a Pokemon character when you were that character's age and kinda retaining the crush while you grow up but the character in the original story doesn't. That's not too weird, because you kind of imagine the character growing up with you. But when a real, human person is involved, it gets creepy. Actors are people just like us and deserve the same respect of their humanity.

[@jojojohnson2000]

@@Songmorningit goes to show how normal people age with their types also. I used to be obsessed with the vampire that played in this one show goodness I can’t remember now lol but I was little so when I was like let me see him again I saw the same picture from his age then and was like he’s so cute like a little baby cute! You’re taste should grow with you!! It’s crazy these grown adults get obsessed with the child actors that play the kid.

[@lesreliqueslove]

Please do note that Draco (main one talked about in the video) was an adult in the 5 last movies. Having a crush on Movie 6 Draco is having a crush on a good looking 22 y/o. That is neither uncommon nor problematic. Let's use our critical thinking ;)

[@espeon871]

The house discrimination stories are insane when the harry potter fandom has legit issues like racist misogyny at the poc women characters and their actors esp if theyre seen as a "hurdle" and also just bigotry in general like any fandom 😭🙏

[@ZackRekeSkjell]

I’d place writing and reading fanfiction on the second level. Being a part of a community who reads fanfiction I’ve never encountered anyone who thinks the world of Harry Potter is real. It’s more of a way to experience the characters you know in different scenarios and a lot of them are really well written as well. But overall I’d say I’m level two. I even founded my high school’s quidditch team. We even participated in the national cup one year, but we only practiced once beforehand and got a shared last place.

[@Andrein.3237]

With the Disney video and this video I realized Curtis really just misses the mark sometimes. I think the fame has gotten to his head

[@erinfournumbers]

I will always call her Joanne, since that's the name she was assigned at birth, and it devalues the experiences of women to have her obfuscate her gender to sell more books.

[@OctoAmbush-nc4xt]

Can I steal this joke?

[@bleh3.2]

I just find it a bit ironic how Joanne wrote and centered an entire book series about a boy literally getting out of his closet and so many people interpreting his uncle/aunt's hate of magic as a metaphor to homophobia only for her to turn around and start spewing terf nonsense

[@JaneDoeValentine]

@@bleh3.2but the whole Voldemort/Tom riddle naming situations should have been a warning sign tho 💀

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

​@@bleh3.2"terf nonsense". And what exactly is wrong with not wanting men in women's bathrooms or changing rooms, especially ones with a high level of children?

[@hellminths]

​@@SockieTheSockPuppetgoo goo ga ga

[@TimeBucks]

This was a fun watch

[@ibrahimmashi-ko2iw]

Nice

[@SaurabhLakheda]

Nice

[@Deepak_4578]

Nice

[@PriscaOnyenwere]

Good one

[@zubairaslam402]

Great

[@FB711_]

I really hope that story is fake. “Stop telling us we’re abusing our child, we already know. It’s gonna be fine, they’ll just be traumatized for life and never trust anyone or anything around them.” is as wild as it gets.

[@soroushal1921]

There's this book called HP and the Methods of Rationality, which is a complete book on its own, and there, the author says that each house represents an ideal, not a reality. So Griffindors are wannabe heroes and they idealize courage. The serpents instead idiolize power and cunningness, that's why all dark wizards are from Slytherin. A good commentary, I'd say...

[@Patterrz]

That kid that's been lied to for years by their parents about magic being real is gonna need some big therapy in a few years

[@thebluePumpking]

First i see you under Charlies Marvels review and now here under a Harry Potter video?! What's next?

[@raven_ouma]

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

[@rheenusthebeanus4559]

JK Rowling can hate trans people all she wants, but jokes on her, the polyjuice potion was lowkey my introduction to being trans. When I was young, I was like "damn so I could be a girl?! Sweet!!" JK truly played herself

[@evergreencollective9059]

Stop that's so fucking good 😂😂 love that for you

[@kat_nosleep127]

Same! I’m a newer hp fan, watching the movies for the first time only half a year ago, and as soon as I watched it I was like “oh yeah, they’re all gay.”

[@gwennorthcutt421]

okay thats hilarious :D

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

Same lmao, I had completely forgotten about that until now but I thought the exact same thing.

[@SomeAsian]

Aren't there also actual spells to change someone's appearance without the potion? Because if there is she DOUBLE played herself.

[@littlecoffeebean6744]

4:02 The Zelda boss music with JKR face made me spit out of my coffee HAHAHAHA

[@kulbrez4884]

I dunno about the fanfiction thing. I’ve made non-sexual fanfiction from being inspired by something cool. Pokémon, random anime growing up, and my latest one was being inspired by JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Fanfiction isn’t a negative thing, I believe. You are supposed to be inspired by what you watch sometimes. In that moment, I make a fanfiction idea or story, but I don’t obsess about it. It is just elaborating on an awesome idea in that instant.

[@arisully28]

the Sirius jumpscare every time kurt says the word “serious” is so off putting i love it

[@elye0987]

Keep this energy for all vids, like the barbie balls clip

[@cesarmadero05]

I remember he used to bring that out even when the context of the video wasn't about Harry Potter. It was a nice throwback here.

[@Random-sk6hm]

He needs to add this to the regular repertoire like with the 'balls' audio

[@arisully28]

27:28 he missed one

[@gracecampiti8112]

Kurtis mispronouncing Massachusetts is such a Canadian thing to do.

[@WiseTurtle88]

I live in Massachusetts, and it sounded fine to me.

[@GuardianSpirits13]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that lol

[@bucketman5138]

as a canadian, i can confirm i know it as massive2shits

[@WORLDTOURGIRL]

im american and idek how to pronounce it

[@alec5779]

Americans naming one of their states fucking "Massachusetts" is such a hufflepuff thing to do

[@jordenlmao]

dude i had this playing in the backround and i turn around "11 Semptember 2001" so confused

[@Laineyphillips06]

When you mentioned fanfiction I was fully expecting a section on my immortal

[@onlineskitty]

my immortal deserves its own video

[@anyanaylor]

Writing fanfiction can be cringe and weird but a lot of it is just young people expressing themselves creatively and learning writing skills, definitely not lower than naming a child after a fictional character

[@ironhidex7554]

And tbh theres a lot of adults that write really good fanfics still,you just have to sift through the cringe.

[@ilovepeoplebro]

I would even say I've read fanfics with better qualities than novels

[@ironhidex7554]

@@ilovepeoplebro i have to agree,i honestly usually pick fanfiction over standard novels for that very reason. Sometimes its just better

[@balabanasireti]

I disagree

[@balabanasireti]

​@@ironhidex7554If 10 out of 100 stories are good, them fanfiction as a whole isn't good. Simple as that

[@natlikesthings]

I was heartbroken that Kurtis didn’t cover My Immortal but he redeemed himself by covering the Snapewives

[@kittyqueentengu5327]

i’d pay kurtis so much money to read my immortal on camera

[@vanimation7069]

Fr that's what I was expecting for the fanfiction segment

[@cosmics2232]

Idk how he could mention fanfiction and NOT mention my immortal😭😭😭

[@colebrown4927]

@@cosmics2232what is my immortal

[@lisbethyoung3047]

My Immortal has got to be the best piece of literature ever written

[@ArdillaINC]

The “sexualization “ part actually been something I’ve been pondering about because I was slightly younger than the characters as the movies were coming out and I always had a thing for Malfoy and at the time it was normal (Similar to our Twilight era). Of course in a normal timeline I would like adult Malfoy but since that hasn’t been made I now have to rely on ai art to still like the character. But I think this situation now that I;m in my 20s is very different than someone who likes a child character in ‘that way’ when you were already an adult. Children who grew up with these movies of course will still remember their crushes from back in the day and I think can be separated from actual pervs out there. Just an opinion on this little part discussed in the video

[@h3cynthia]

I’m sorry but ain’t NO WAY reading fan fiction is worse than getting a TATTOO, having a themed WEDDING, and naming your kids after the characters 😭

[@apy_meow]

I remember when I was a kid, I was the BIGGEST potterhead to exist. I read the books like million times a year, watch the movies whenever they were on TV and I genually bellived Hogwarts was real and I was hoping I would get the letter on my 11th birthday. And when I finally turned 11, instead of the letter I got suicidal thoughts

[@charlotteleblanc2803]

Same 💀

[@ArchOwl]

ending your comment like that is diabolical, i feel like i'm going to hell for laughing at that

[@sheeparefine]

The letted dosent come on your 11th birthday it comes on 31 july the year you turn 11

[@imbuffysummers]

Every kid I’ve ever babysat for has gone through a Harry Potter phase. They’re obsessed with it all things HP for exactly one year maybe one and a half but usually even less and then they don’t care about it at all anymore. Every. single. one.

[@Annabeth_Chase68]

Same lol

[@Opus566]

I can't believe Kurtis brought up Harry Potter fanfics without mentioning Cassandra Clare's messed up Harry Potter fanficton, which, after a number of alterations, LITERALLY became the mortal instruments😭😭

[@xnng]

:o

[@yourcookiemonster2055]

WHAT? i didn’t know that 💀

[@haweyahussein2233]

And My Immortal 💀

[@thorcanchokeme5867]

Literally the best fanfic of all time 😭💀😭

[@mysticaldemon5673]

this is not true lol. yes she wrote some f*cked harry potter fanfiction but the mortal instruments is not BASED on any of it

[@milward4563]

Your explanation of the houses is missing one key detail - Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!

[@AamuAurora]

Today is the 2nd of May, the day of the Battle of Hogwarts (remember to honor the heroes). It's also the national holiday of Polish Flag. I think it's clear what does it mean. Voldemort saw the Polish student, Lechsinka, proudly wave her little flag and just couldn't take it anymore. It's a canon that Lechsinka covered her tuition by cleaning JK Rowling's bathroom. The author was very bothered by the thick accent of her magical Polish employee with "Slavic eyes". Later she decided to write her into the newest deceive novel as a person who didn't know the word "detective" ❤

[@hella7617]

You should do a deep dive into the marauders fandom, it’s so interesting how they’ve created a whole fandom based on almost nothing and also how separated it is from the Harry Potter fandom

[@beth8191]

Honestly, as someone in the fandom, it’s insane 😭 We have taken the skeleton of almost nonexistent canon information and fleshed it out entirely, almost completely excluding the role of jkr. In almost every fic, you’ll see something along the lines of “f*ck JKR” in the summary before the fic 😭

[@Blue.Jay_]

literally it would be so interesting, like we’ve basically created a whole different cannon than the original hp books

[@user-rx6gb5uz2l]

I get people are into the idea of some mischievous scamps messing around but people somehow forget that the marauders were legit vicious bullies. obviously people can do whatever they want, but the obsession with the marauders warrants a small side eye

[@robertgronewold3326]

The Marauders fandom sort of recently took me by surprise, despite me being a huge HP fan. They basically created their own extended universe.

[@siriusblackisgenderenvy]

​@@user-rx6gb5uz2lthey weren't vicious bullies. Their story was told through obsessive racist Snapes visoon/memory. But there's definitely other things to side eye the Fandom on

[@majikku2676]

kurtis being sorted into hufflepuff makes so much sense 😭

[@ladygray6081]

It’s cause he’s Canadian, all Canadians r hufflepuffs 😅

[@The_Altist]

EXcuse me @@ladygray6081

[@StarThePony191]

​@@ladygray6081i cant believe harry potter made canadians! very creative concept, wish they were real

[@registeredjopper]

ikr. like the least surprising thing ive ever heard

[@deannas2778]

I remember taking the test and getting Hufflepuff 😅

[@WTKB82]

Rowling had already previously revealed that Dumbledore was gay to the film makers when the script was being written The only reason WE know is because she was asked about it specifically later on. Otherwise, she likely wouldn’t have said it.