Thursday Tunes: Harry and the Potters

July 26, 2012 | Miscellania

This week’s Thursday Tunes comes courtesy of a nerdishly whimsical band, Harry and the Potters. Composed of brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters has been delighting fans with their Harry Potter-themed music since the early 2000′s. Here’s a description of the Harry and the Potters taken from the band’s own website:

Imagine if Harry Potter quit the quidditch team and started a punk rock band. Take that one step further and imagine that he stole a time-turner and decided to start that band with himself from a different point in time. Imagine that band could exist without compromising themselves. Imagine that they are able to operate completely independently, without managers, booking agents, recording budgets, publicists, record labels, or anything aside from a sense of enthusiasm and a desire to have fun.

Hello. We are Harry and the Potters.

We are brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge. We started this band in 2002 when Joe was 15 and Paul was 23. We played our first show in a shed in our parent’s backyard.

We never quite expected this project to last as long as it has. Since our first show in our parent’s backyard, we have played over 500 shows in 49 different US states and in a handful of foreign counties. We have played in libraries, bookstores, rock clubs, theaters, galleries, museums, doughnut shops, bowling alleys, pizza places, and even a pirate-supply store. We always try to make our shows unique and unexpected experiences that attempt to capture some of the magic of these books we love so much.

Each of their albums are loaded with Harry Potter goodness, so I picked a song that honors one of my favorite characters, Luna Lovegood. Taken from their 2004 album, Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock, here’s “Luna Lovegood is O.K.”

“Luna Lovegood is O.K.” by Harry and the Potters

Luna Loony Lovegood
Luna Loony Lovegood

I’m glad that you’re seeing the Thestrals like me
I’m glad that the kids think you’re weirder than me

Oh Luna Loony Lovegood
You’re OK in my book

Are you going to Sweden
To see the Crumpled-Horned Snorkack?
Are you going to Sweden this summer?

Luna Loony Lovegood
You’re OK in my book

You’re a little bit weird
But I think that’s it’s cool
There’s no one else like you
Here at our school
I’m glad you were a part
Of Dumbedore’s Army
You’ve fought against those Death Eaters
So bravely beside me

Luna Loony Lovegood
You’re OK in my book
Luna Loony Lovegood
You’re OK in my book