The Top 5 Wizard Rock Songs to Bring You Back to Hogwarts

Every once in a while, it becomes necessary to return to Hogwarts. A few months ago, I borrowed the audiobooks from a friend and jumped right back into the same sort of obsessive reading that I did five and ten years ago (late night Wikipedia article-reading trying to make sense of wizard currency, frustrated texts to friends about how Ron didn’t used to be this annoying, etc.). Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to read about Harry every moment of every day, so to fill those gaps, I turned to wizard rock.

Wizard rock, or wrock, was born when a band scheduled to perform in Paul and Joe Degeorge’s back yard, dropped out. The brothers needed a replacement band, so they formed their own: Harry and the Potters, with one brother acting as Harry (Year 4) and the other as Harry (Year 7). Their performance was a success, and soon they were touring the country. (I saw them in Chicago around the time the eighth movie premiered.) Harry and the Potters grew more popular. They were joined in their wrocking by Draco and the Malfoys, Parseltongue, Ministry of Magic, Swish and Flick, The Whomping Willows, and more. (The band names have to be one of the best things about wizard rock.)

The songs they perform aren’t parodies. They are, for the most part, original songs written from the point of view of a Harry Potter character or someone from the wizarding world. (There are some excellent Harry Potter parody songs. I will not include any here, but I did start my wizard rock research because I was hoping someone had written a Lorde “Love Club” parody called “Slug Club.” Please, internet, take this idea and run with it.)