Youtuber Kurtis Conner does a Deep Dive into Potterheads

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Youtuber Kurtis Conner takes a deep dive into the world of Harry Potter fans, also known as "Potterheads".

timestamps:
00:00 intro
4:00 J.K. Rowling
7:27 Level 1. Casual Potterheads: Watches the movies once a year. Knows their Hogwarts house and their Patronus. Possible read the book once.
10:08 Level 2. Genuine Potterheads: Watches the

Comments

[blackstarnebula]

I’m like a level 1 in that I’ve read the books only once, seen the films only once (when they premiered), been to the theme park once but…..I do read HP fanfiction. But I read fanfiction in general.

[kawaiiairbender]

I remember reading about the snapewives and them meeting him on the Astral plane like 15 years ago. 🤣🫠

Anyway, I was mever into hp but like all fandoms some people are too into it

[bluestoplights]

Watched the craziest video about the lotr fic cult who thought they could channel the characters and somehow got sean astin involved in their fake charity

[screamingintune]

the early aughts were really the most unhinged time for fandom, the LOTR people were CRAZY.

[pepsi_twist9]

What???

[ahkna]

Even at Level 1 I'm still begging them to read more. Hell, even read more middle grade and young adult fiction because Harry Potter is so middling.

Take it away, Ursula K Le Guin!
"I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."

[beuk]

Seriously, I read such good middle grade and YA fantasy growing up that JKR barely rates a mention. Lloyd Alexander, Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones, then Garth Nix and Phillip Pullman and of course Ursula K Le Guin.

[awkward_as_heck]

Same. By the time I got around to HP it seemed basic in comparison. But I guess the accessibility is the appeal.

[kjesta]

Bless Ursula, she's spot-on. I think many of us outside the UK don't know that stuff like having school houses isn't an invention by JKR, so it seemed v novel and imaginative to us maybe? Idk.

Either way, Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy is actual good YA lit, I read it at 14 (one of my first English language books) and have reread it every few years and it's incredible how well it holds up, and even gets better as I've grown up and understand stuff like class criticism, anti-imperialism and jabs at the british museum for being colonialist thieves.

[war_machine_rox]

I guess I was a level 1 potterhead once upon a time. I never liked the films but had merch and absolutely did the official Sorting and Patronus.

The only time I still participated in HP stuff recently was with some old coworkers and we would have discussions~ about old theories. Even if JKR wasn't a piece of shit I probably still just, grew out of it.

Snapewives were fascinating. First time I've seen fandom be truly batshit.

[setsuna16]

I was in college during the main thrust of the Harry Potter craze, but, younger ONTD... was it actually kind of common for colleges to have a Quidditch team?

[justabwaybaby]

My ex's brother's friend broke his leg when he played on Virginia Tech's team. That would have been 2013, I think?

[jumelles_mach6]

when I was in college in the 2010s, there was a harry potter club and amongst themselves they had a quidditch team.

[bsfan]

Honestly...yeah. I was in college from 2009-2013 and saw some people playing it on the quad. I was the biggest Potter fan at the time and still felt a lot of second hand embarrassment. It'd be one thing to run around and play the game, but to do it with a broomstick between your legs? COME ON PEOPLE!! Go to class.