Awesome / A Very Potter Musical

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A Very Potter Musical - which is totally awesome

• Hermione's jellylegs jinx, making Draco apologize for everything he just said.
  • Telling off Ron and Draco at the Yule Ball.
• Cedric: "Okay, have the punch!" Harry really had that coming.
• Despite the sheer Mood Whiplash, Harry actually subverts Talking Is a Free Action in the graveyard. At first he's helpless after being hit with the Body-Bind Curse, then forced to dance along with Voldemort's tap routine. After Bellatrix appears, though, Harry onstage realizes that they forgot to rebind him. The Death Eaters are too caught up in the moment of planning to throw Quirrell under the bus. He also remembered what Snape said about Portkeys. Harry quickly rushes to grab the punch ladle Portkey and holds onto Cedric's body.
  "You're not killing me today, Voldemort, but I'll tell you what: I'll get you some punch!"
• Harry hated Cedric in life. He keeps repeating multiple times after the graveyard that don't forget Cedric died. Cedric was a bit of a prat, but he didn't deserve death by Voldemort.
• Neville: "Expelliarmus!"
• Dumbledore said it would be very stupid to send Harry on a Wild Goose Chase to find Horcruxes. He got a medallion instead that can track down Horcruxes since they can be anything.
• "I am about to betray someone, right now!"
• Molly showing up just to do her CMOA from the books, complete with "bitch."
• Draco admits that he was on the wrong side, when realizing that he couldn't kill Dumbledore and was still indirectly responsible for Dumbledore's "death". Backstage, he hears the trio reuniting and Ginny saying it's time for her to join the fight, and...apologizes. He says he thinks Harry is cool and will swallow his pride to defend Hogwarts.
• Ron, just after kissing Hermione and with the Sword of Gryffindor in hand, yelling "LET'S GO KILL VOLDEMORT!"
• It's the Darkest Hour. Voldemort has seemingly killed Harry, and the Hogwarts survivors are trapped in the Room of Requirement. Who steps up to the plate? Why, Ronald Weasley! He says that Harry would do the same for them, telling them that they have to fight. When everyone is still injured from the battle, tired and despairing, he tells them that Harry would never give up. They can't either. The first step is to barricade the door, get some snacks, and have wands at the ready.
• The Rousing Speech song "Voldemort is Going Down." Thanks to Ron, Hermione and a recently resurrected Harry, they are able to bring together the students of Hogwarts for their Last Stand.
  ♫ We must unite so we can fight!
  Turn the battle around!
  Time's running out, it's time to shout!
  Voldemort is going...
  We must unite, so we can fight
  Voldemort is going down! ♫
  • This is followed by Harry's and Voldemort's last conversation before they have their last duel. It's cathartic to see Harry give Voldemort one hell of a verbal beatdown while his friends watch, which is actually what happened in the books!
    Harry: Because this time it's just you and me! Because all the Horcruxes are gone. I destroyed them all.
    Voldemort: What? Even my Zefron poster?!
    Harry: Especially the Zefron poster!
    Voldemort: No! Curse you, Potter! You'll die for that!
    Harry: No! I won't, I won't. Because you can't kill me, and you can't kill any of these people.
    Voldemort: What the f*** you on about?
    Harry: You don't learn from your mistakes, do you, Voldemort? I was prepared to die to save these people.
    Voldemort: But you didn't!
    Harry: Yes, but I meant to. And that's what did it. I've done what my mother did for me for these people. I've given them magical sanctuary so you can't hurt me or these people ever again!
    Voldemort: So what?! Who cares about these children? It's you I want dead, Potter! What's to stop you from dying when I strike?
    Harry: Just one thing. Think about all the people you've hurt, Voldemort. All the lives you've destroyed, all the people you've killed. Okay? Maybe try a little slice of remorse pie.
    Voldemort: What?
    Harry: There's got to be one person... one thing in your life that you miss. That you regret.
    Voldemort: Well, maybe there's one I... No! There isn't! The joke's on you, Potter! I don't care about anybody!
    Harry: I know. And that's what makes you such a piece of shit. 'Cause here at Hogwarts we all stick together. We love one another. We're friends. My love's protected these guys and their love is all I need to protect me from you.
    Voldemort: Let's put that theory to the test, Potter! Avada Kedavra!
    Harry: Expelliarmus!
    [After a few wails of pain, Voldemort drops dead, proving himself wrong.]
  • If one looks closely before the final spells are cast, Harry even twirls his wand around in his hand, utterly confident of his impending victory.
• How the Sequel Hook is both frustrating and brilliant. Harry told Voldemort that he could only be saved if he felt remorse for his actions. Voldemort thinks...and feels guilty for how he treated Quirrell. While he dismisses it at the time, he shows up in Azkaban, revealing that he inadvertently made Quirrell a Horcrux because he cared about the guy so much. Voldemort sincerely apologizes for the plan to frame him for Harry Potter's murder, and asks if they can start again.

A Very Potter Sequel

• The introduction to "No Way."
  Harry: For 11 years I was a little douche bag locked up under some stairs. But this year? I found out I'm a wizard, and I'm famous. I can fly and turn invisible, and I just traveled the fuck back in time! So fuck you Draco, how's that for a happy thought?
• Lupin's introduction saving Harry from a Death Eater. "Take that, you bastard ass!"
• Hermione's "I Want" Song, "The Coolest Girl."
• All of the opening scene. "It's Not Over Yet" continues the grand tradition of Villain Songs being the best. In particular the moment when he pulls out the time turner; just listen to the pop from the audience as they realize what the sequel's story is going to be.
• Hermione whips out the jellylegs jinx again, this time on Lucius as he's stealing Harry's Firebolt.
• Ron's poop-nose maneuver on Future!Malfoy. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
• Umbridge has a pretty epic moment when she high-kicks Hermione right in the face. Kick the Dog moment? Undoubtedly. Totally awesome? YES.
  Umbridge: That's bullshit Snape! You can't Disapparate inside of Hogwarts! Right?
  Dumbledore, Off-stage: Right!
  Umbridge: Right!!
• The entire fight between Firenze and Umbridge. Especially "SILENCE!"
• The still somewhat-drunk Snape vs. Death Eaters. "Put it on my tab! Stupefy!"
  • And then telling the kids to run while he fends them off with a chair like a lion tamer.

A Very Potter Senior Year

• The very first thing you see: Luna, played by Evanna Lynch herself.
• Ron sticking up for Harry to the Hogwarts students after he leaves because they've lost faith in him.
• Snape's Rousing Speech to Harry.
• Harry slaying the basilisk while singing "Harry Freakin' Potter''.
• Barty Crouch doesn't fuck around. He actually does (try to) just shoot them.
• Harry singing "Gotta Get Back to Hogwarts''.
• They twice take advantage of the fact that the third installment is a staged reading by having the narrator describe things too amazingly awesome to ever happen in a stage show. For bonus points, the narrator is famous voice actor Bob Joles.
• "I'm Just a Sidekick" sounds awesome—Joey knocks the song out of the park.

A Very Potter Christmas

• The Lang brothers obviously had a lot of fun at the expense of courtroom drama tropes, but that doesn't mean that they aren't able to get some awesomeness out of them, too. Sirius' inspirational speech to James over what being a Gryffindor means to him and James' dramatic final statements regarding why the aspiration to be brave is what makes Gryffindor the best house are actually pretty stirring whether you agree with their points or not.
• Lily's last ditch effort to win the case by arguing that Peter Venkman is a Slytherin. It's a deft rhetorical move in- and out-of-universe, even with how ridiculous the nature of the argument may be.