What's your favourite thing about Draco Malfoy?
He's evil.
What's up, everybody?
My name's Shaun, and we're here
at Harry Potter: The Exhibition.
And we are doing a little thing we call,
Muggle on the Street.
All the Harry Potter fans I talk to have a story.
They all got into it in a particular way.
What is your fan story?
I got into the movies and just
finished them this past year.
Grandparents read me the books.
I watched the movies, so I'm a movie person.
Same.
I cried when I was 11 years old
and I didn't get my letter.
I was probably, like, ten years old when it came out.
And I just started reading it
and have been obsessed ever since.
I actually grew up with Harry Potter.
He was the same age as I was.
Did you experience anything in your life
as Harry was experiencing them?
I mean, I found out I was a wizard
at the same time as he did.
So ...
The teenage angst.
Yeah, a lot of angst.
Right around book 4 he got so angsty.
I was like, "I feel you Harry.
I'm here with you, buddy."
I started making out with people when they started
putting makeouts in the books.
I was like, "Okay, that happened. They're kissing."
Theirs just wasn't as magical.
Reading was kind of my escapism when I was a kid.
So, I read the first one, I think, 32 times.
You read the first one 32 times?
Yeah, it was excessive.
Were you waiting for the second one to come out? Or ...
Well, kinda.
If you've read it more than 32 times,
or even close to that number,
please comment.
We would love to see anyone that can
beat Dave Jackson's record here.
Maybe not recommended, but it was definitely a feat.
What is your fan story?
How did you get into it, Leia?
Whenever I saw Draco.
What's your favourite thing about Draco Malfoy?
He's evil.
He's evil! You like ...
You like how evil he is?
That's hilarious.
Are you evil, Leia?
Yes.
What?
No, you are not.
No, she's not evil?
No, no. She's a sweet—
She's telling me she is!
No, she's a sweet little kid.
Jackson, what is your favourite
thing about Harry Potter or Hogwarts?
Hogwarts.
Okay, it's Hogwarts?
Do you like casting spells?
Yeah.
Cast your spell for us.
Show them.
Oh, what?
If you were a student at Hogwarts and you put that hat on,
where would you be getting sorted, do you think?
Oh, I'm a Hufflepuff, all the way.
Definitely Gryffindor.
Absolutely Gryffindor.
Gryffindor.
Hufflepuff.
Ravenclaw.
Yeah, I was gonna say that.
Probably Ravenclaw.
There was a long time I thought I was a Hufflepuff
'cause I was, like, so into the concept of Hufflepuff.
Right.
Every single time I took the quiz it was like,
"Ravenclaw." And I'm like, "But ...
But Hufflepuff!"
Either Gryffindor or Hufflepuff.
Sorry, it's funny that you have a safety school.
Yeah, yeah!
First of all, Capricorn.
Capricorns and Slytherins, they're the same thing.
Okay, cool.
I like money. Very goal-oriented.
I don't have the mischievous thing going on.
I don't have the, like, "I'm a nerd but not really."
I have like all of the same—
I kind of fit into a lot of different moulds
and I feel like that's where Gryffindor is.
Okay, I don't know. The hat is right there.
So, we can test it.
Let's ask him!
She's got a little bit of Slytherin, but she's Gryffindor.
Okay, alright, cool. Agreed?
Yeah, just a touch of Slytherin. Just a little bit.
Just enough to get things done.
Yeah, exactly.
You wanna introduce yourself?
Oh, she's quiet.
She's a Ravenclaw too.
Hopefully.
Well, everybody claims they wanna be a Gryffindor.
Right? That's the way it wants to go.
And so, I think I knew I was a
Ravenclaw and was okay with that.
Nobody wanted to be Slytherin, so we're okay there.
But yeah, her assessment, she's a Hufflepuff for sure.
We know that.
Even though I'm not patient.
She's not patient.
So, that's one of the skills that she's not got.
100% Ravenclaw.
Okay.
100%.
Explain why.
If you're wrong, I'm going to tell you nicely.
But you're wrong.
But you are wrong. We will make it known.
We will make it known.
What is the number one reason
you would wanna go to Hogwarts?
No P.E. class.
No P.E. class!
No. Off the bat it's magic.
Magic, of course. 100%.
What class would you find yourself
most into? Or maybe even—
Divination. Divination for sure.
Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Okay. Very cool. Keeping everyone safe.
Yeah.
If there was a possibility of doing an extracurriculur
minor in Quidditch, I'd do it.
If there's an art class, I'll take it.
I'm very creative.
There's a Dark Arts class.
Yeah, I was gonna say, there's a Dark Arts—
It's got "art" in the name of it.
I don't know how many pastels you're gonna be pulling out.
It might be pretty scary.
I'll go into plants.
Okay, cool! Yeah.
What would you do with all of the Herbology knowledge?
I would make plants to eat people, of course.
Make plants to eat people!
You better watch out.
What Patronus would you have to represent you?
I would have a phoenix.
That's a good question.
And actually one I've thought about.
Probably a wyvern.
What is a wyvern?
It's kind of like a dragon.
But it's, like, diet dragon.
What is the nerdiest fan thing that you've ever done
or maybe you own?
I have almost a full sleeve of
Harry Potter tattoos.
Would you mind walking us through these?
So, I have the Dark Mark with the
"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good."
Yes.
Golden Snitch.
Then I have—
This was my first Harry Potter.
It was all the books that fade up into birds.
And then me and my best friend got the wands,
which is actually the wand I carry.
Wow!
And it says, "Until the very end."
With a Patronus.
And then I actually got the castle in Universal.
Wow! Oh my gosh.
At the Wizarding World, so that was ...
It's a small start.
I wanna get as much as I can.
And then fill up the background too.
Do you have an intense fan thing that you got too?
I actually don't any tattoos.