(skipping)
- Hmmm?
I think this is right.
Hello, audible, Pottermore?
I thought this was where I was supposed to go,
but this does not seem right.
Hmmm
Books, my favorite things, this must be a clue, a puzzle.
I can figure this out, I can do this, okay, okay, okay, um.
Where, where, if I was a secret-- wait a second/
(door clinks)
(gasps)
(upbeat music)
I'm Harry, Harry Potter.
Hey guys!
Today's the day of the big Audible collab,
with me and all these other Youtubers,
we're going to do a Harry Potter book club discussion.
I have my Ravenclaw colors on.
I am so excited to be joining Pottermore and Audible
in helping to celebrate the 2Oth anniversary
of the Harry Potter book release in the United States.
I can't wait to represent Prisoner of Azkaban,
because seriously, how great is Remus Lupin though?
Oh, I love him!
While I was driving here I was re-listening
to some of my favorite parts from Prisoner of Azkaban,
like the end scene with Harry and the Patronus,
that's like my favorite, just the whole time turner sequence
it's so good.
I got my time turner.
I'm nervous, because Harry Potter is so personal to me,
but I'm excited to make new Harry Potter friends.
So I was in third grade, and I remember, my class,
they were reading the books to us
and when I found out they go to Hogwarts on September 1st,
that's my birthday, yeah so it was such a magical moment
and I was like, "I'm a witch!"
I was like, "Oh my gosh!"
So I went home and I was like,
"Mom I need to get these books, it's destiny for me."
So I went home and got the first book
and I read it all that night
and after that it was just destiny.
It was so cool, getting to see everyone's
love for Harry Potter.
Everyone's experience with Harry Potter.
Like, relating their books that they chose.
So at first, Lisa Schwartz had
Harry and the Sorcerer's Stone and it was amazing
because this was her first time listening and reading
and living Harry Potter.
This was her intro in the fandom.
- Do you feel like the story's different when you hear it,
as opposed to reading it?
I'm interested since you started reading
and then you made the switch.
- Yeah, it really is because you get to live in it more.
Because if you had it read to you,
it's like that sort of experience again,
so it brings back that nostalgia, of having it read to you.
But it feels so good--
(everyone agreeing collectively)
- It really does feel like you're immerse in it,
like you're part of the story.
- You can imagine more!
Next, Brizzy listen to Chamber of Secrets,
which is one of my personal favorites,
and Brizzy did an amazing video wear she did a Fawkes
makeup tutorial and I love when Brizzy does makeup
because it's always so creative
and Fawkes is the perfect creation.
And then, I, of course, had Prisoner of Azkaban.
- Who had Prisoner of Azkaban, then?
- That was me!
- I'm so jealous.
(group agrees collectively)
- Yep, I had Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
and that is one of my favorites of all time,
so I was so excited and I just love Prisoner of Azkaban,
because it's where Harry's story
starts getting a little darker, a little deeper,
it's stops being such a children's book
and so many plot twists and it's like a murder mystery
at the end and I get so intense
when I'm reading the end of that book
because so many thing's happening and it's so confusing
nut so amazing and I just want to consume it all.
So I'm like listening to it in my car,
and I like, "Yes, yes, oh my gosh, no, stop, stop!"
And for my video I'm doing a
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Tag,
because I love Harry Potter Tags on Youtube,
they are one of my favorite things to watch--
- Oh my god, I know what I'm doing when I get home!
- Yes! So it's tons of questions related, specifically
to Prisoner of Azkaban and so you guys can all
answer them yourselves.
- It was a good one, it had a completely different feel,
from any of the other books.
It was kind of where things started to change
and it just felt Harry was starting to grow up.
- Yeah, and Voldemort is not in it.
- It's the only one.
- It's crazy, and it's just nice, it's a nice little story.
- It is a good one, I love that book.
- Every single time I re-listen or re-read the books
I find a connection with a certain character.
Sometimes it's Luna, sometimes it's Hermione,
sometimes it's Dumbledore, this time around
I feel so connected to Harry.
When I was listening to the final Quidditch match
between Gryffindor and Sytyherin
where Harry catches the snitch and wins the House Cup,
I started getting emotional.
Because this is such a pure moment of happiness for Harry,
he's about to go through a lot in the next couple of books,
so it's so refreshing and wonderful and beautiful
to see this pure moment of happiness and joy from him.
When it comes to Prisoner of Azkaban, since that was my book
Remus Lupin can we talk about him?
Okay, he's a werewolf, sorry spoilers.
(everyone laughs)
- But it's been 20 years.
- He's a werewolf, but he's so kind
and he's such a father figure to Harry,
and he's such a wondeful, good man that it teaches you
not to judge people on the fact that he's a werewolf.
How brilliant that like J. K. Rowling could just
put those lessons in there?
I think Defense Against the Dark Arts so fun though,
especially with Lupin, he was such a great teacher.
- But would you wanna be the teacher
or would wanna take the class?
Would that be your favorite class
or that be your favorite class to teach?
- I think it would be my favorite class, not to teach.
- No one wants to teach it. Right?
- Yeah, exactly, I was like, "Uh."
But also Defense Against the Dark Arts
depends on the teacher because the teacher changes so much.
- Fifth year, not so great.
- What about Gilderoy?
- So what was the best Defense Against the Dark Arts--
- Lupin! He was the best.
- So Corinne did Goblet of Fire,
and she was also talking about how Goblet of Fire
is where things start getting really dark,
this is the book where people start to die.
Corinne is also a Ravenclaw.
I could just tell she was a Ravenclaw.
My favorite character is Luna Lovegood.
- She is definitely top of my list, also.
- Oh, I love her so much.
- I was gonna say yeah I can see that.
- Well you know we are Ravenclaw,
so of course, we're gonna be really partial.
- Yeah but I loved her so much,
because at first I thought I was a Gryffindor,
because I related to Hermione,
but I related to Hermione's Revenclaw traits.
And then when Luna was introduced I was like,
"Oh my gosh, no this is perfect, this is me."
She is so empathetic and compassionate and unique
and loving, and perfect
and I just love every single thing about her character.
I felt so represented by her and I just love her so much.
And Loey Lane had Order of the Phoenix,
and Loey is a Hufflepuff
and she is just a wonderful, glorious Hufflepuff.
She was showing her Hufflepuff pride,
and she surprised me with her knowledge of Harry Potter.
It was wonderful.
- Do you guys understand I always wanted a Buckbeak,
and I always wanted one.
- Me too, I had an imaginary Hippogriff as a friend.
- Thank god, same.
- You know how kids had imaginary friends?
I had an imaginary Hippogriff.
- I love that!
- And then my favorite Gryffindor Lana,
had Half Blood Prince!
Lana was the only Gryffindor there, but she held her own.
There was this moment where we were talking about
just what Harry Potter means to us,
and what Harry Potter has taught us?
And Lana said this beautiful quote about love.
How the lesson of love, the beauty of love,
the power of love, that is Harry Potter.
Yeah, there's magic but there's magic in love.
- [Tessa] I took away just the power of friendship.
In Harry Potter how important it is,
especially in the third book.
Harry and Ron just distance themselves from Hermione,
and Hagrid reminds them like, "Listen,
she is an important part of your life,
you need to pay attention to her."
And sometimes that happens in our lives,
we forget to pay attention to our friends,
and we forget how important that they are to us.
If Voldemort was able to love, if he had that love,
if he could have those types of friendships,
and that is how Harry was so powerful,
because he had those friends with him to support him.
He would not be able to get through without his friends.
He needed Ron and Hermione,
and they were always there for him.
And finally, Josh Peck listened to
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.
Josh is a Hufflepuff, and he took the Pottermore test
there for the first time it was very exciting.
Also, in Pottermore his patronus was a badger.
Talk about the ultimate Hufflepuff.
Can we just talk about everyone's Hogwarts House
and go around and say it.
(indistinct chatter among everyone)
- What happened with the quiz
and everyone's experience with that.
- Because we all took the Pottermore quiz,
- Did anyone get a different house
than they thought they were gonna get,
when you took the quiz?
(group disagrees collectively)
- Yep
- Tessa, didn't your house change as you grew up?
- My house did change.
(group shock and surprise)
- It did so, when I was younger I was very much a Gryffindor
in all sense of the word, it was also in my situation,
because I grew up in Pennsylvania.
I grew up when everything was very boring
so I had to be the one
to step it up to make things interesting.
So in that group of people, I was the Gryffindor,
but then I realized I was the Gryffindor
in all accelarated and honors classes,
so I was just a Ravenclaw all along
but I was the most Gryffindor Ravenclaw.
So it was one of those things
where I always thought I was a Gryffindor,
and then I took the Pottermore quiz and I got Ravenclaw.
And I was like, "What?" And I was shocked so I took it again
and I got Revenclaw, I was like,
"I'll just take it one more time," and I got Ravenclaw,
three times in a row and this was when the questions changed
every single time and every time it was Ravenclaw.
So then I read the description on Pottermore
about Ravenclaw, and I was like, "This is perfect, this is
exactly the types of things that I value,
the type of person that I am."
And I was like, "This is my house,"
and I fully embraced it and I never went back.
- You are such a Ravenclaw.
After I've known you for so long, you are such a Ravenclaw.
- I know it's just one of those things that I just
latched on to Hermione so much, and I was just like,
"I feel so connected to her,"
but it was just her Ravenclaw-ness that I was connected to.
My favorite thing in the entire world, is talking to other
Harry Potter fans and hearing their passion
and their love for the series.
Hearing about the experience,
hearing about their favorite characters,
their favorite parts, their favorite books.
What brought them into this fandom
and what keeps them here.
It was also interesting to see everyone's experience
with the audio books, specifically.
Even if you read the Harry Potter books,
listening to them is an entirely, new experience.
- [Tessa] I would always have a Harry Potter book in my bag
when I was in school, because that's why
the audio books are so great.
- Yeah, cause you don't have to carry around a huge book.
- I like listening to it in the grocery store.
(more indistinct chatter from group)
- But are you like looking
for a Diagon Alley entrance in an aisle.
- It's funny because I get more
whimsical food then I realize.
- What's a whimsical food?
- I was just about to ask that.
Yeah what do you shop for?
- It's like I go the candy aisle and I'm like, "Honeydukes!"
- Or a pretzel stick and you're like, "Getting some wands."
- I know and celery.
- I love that, that is so funny.
- For me the audio books made the experience
this is weird, more interactive.
Cause again, I am literally, shouting,
I'm in my car, I'm by myself but I can fully feel
and experience every single emotion
because I'm not sitting and reading,
so it's kind of when you're dancing to music,
or listening to music in your car.
When you're listening to an audio book,
it's surrounding you , and I'm just like, "Ah, Harry!"
I am in it, and it's so--
- It's all yo can focus on.
- It is!
- There's no distractions.
- It surrounds me and it's amazing.
- [Josh] But from the outside of the car, all we see is
(gestures and mouths words wildly)
- Expecto Patronum
- You start waving an imaginary wand in the car.
- Yes, but I am living my best life in that moment.
We could've kept talking for another three hours, I swear.
Thank you Audible, thank you Pottermore!
What an incredible experience!
I'm so lucky to be a part of this,
to make new Harry Potter friends and celebrate the series
that has changed my life.
But talking to them has inspired me to re-listen
to all the Harry Potter audio books on Audible,
and if you wanna listen to go to audible.com/HP20.
And don't let the Muggles get you down.
Stay gold, Starfish, bye!
Mischief Managed!
Hey guys my name is Tessa Netting,
and I am a very proud Ravenclaw
and I just listened to
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in celebration
of the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter,
and you can too at audible.com/HP20
- But you know happiness can be found
even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- Expecto Patronum!