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All right, so over the last year, there are three things that have changed my life. The first one was having a baby girl. The second one was discovering Claude code. And the third one was getting absolutely obsessed with Harry Potter fanfiction. I know it's weird. This is not one of the usual videos on the channel where we talk about productivity or like AI or like how to build a business. But because I've been making YouTube videos for the last like 9 years, sharing things that I find interesting, I'm going to talk to you about Harry Potter fanfiction because I have been literally evangelizing it to everyone I know. And so if you are like me and you're a Harry Potter fan and
you're open to trying something new, then hopefully this video will give you some of my favorite Harry Potter fanfiction book recommendations. Before we talk about the specific books, we're going to zoom out a little bit and I'm going to explain what fanfiction actually is in case you are like me and unfamiliar with the world of fanfiction. So, back in the day, you know, I'd heard of fanfiction as a concept. And I used to think that fanfiction was basically just, you know, some teenage girls who were like taking scenes from a book and like turning it into like, you know, spicy romantic sex scenes or some something like that. And from speaking to uh my wife who's friends at school and her were into that
sort of thing, like for Glee fanfiction, that actually is broadly what the, you know, what the teenage girls were into. But it turns out that description is actually missing quite a lot. And that would be like saying that like all books are basically just Fifty Shades of Gray. It's like no, obviously they're not. All books are obviously not just Fifty Shades of Gray. And I was a dumbass for characterizing fanfiction as basically being like, you know, romanticy smut for teenage girls. Uh that was my bad and totally my loss over the last like 20 years of not like exploring it myself. So, this was my impression of fanfiction uh up until about the middle of 2025 when I stumbled across a thread on Reddit that was talking about Harry Potter and the
methods of rationality. I was like, "Huh, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality." This actually rings a bell. The reason it rang a bell is because over the last like five or so years, I've heard about three different friends independently recommend Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. The one that comes most to mind is my friend Cliff Whitesman. He's been on my podcast a couple of times, featured on the channel. He's the founder of a company called Speechify. He and his brother, I was hanging out with them one time and they were both gushing about this Harry Potter fanfiction called The Methods of Rationality. At the time, I was like, "Ah, come on." Like fanfiction, like why would I read Harry
Potter fanfiction? And I just sort of kind of ignored that recommendation. Uh, which was, you know, to my discredit. And a couple of other people have recommended this specific fanfiction to me over the years. And then I saw it on Reddit like last year, and I was like, "Okay, I think it's time I actually give this a go. It's now been recommended by enough like desperate sources for me to give it a chance." And immediately I was hooked and I was just so totally like man words cannot describe just like how much this book just completely gripped me all the way through. So this is kind of this was sort of my gateway drug into the world of Harry Potter fanfiction. And so this is my first book recommendation for people getting into
Harry Potter fanfiction which is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eleazar Yukowski. Interestingly, Elazu Yukowski is also like one of the OG AI safety researchers, and he's recently come up with a book called If We Build It, It Will Kill Us All or something like that. Uh, which I haven't yet read, but it's kind of random that he wrote this Harry Potter fanfiction like many years ago. Anyway, so Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is 662,000 words. Now, the entirety of all seven books of Harry Potter are about 1.1 million words. It's split up into six books within that. So, each book is its own like anime arc kind of thing. And the idea behind methods of rationality is that it follows Harry in
an alternative universe where instead of Aunt Petunia marrying Uncle Vernon, she actually married a guy who's like a professor of chemistry at Oxford University. And so Harry grows up in this loving household where his parents are like total nerds, or at least his dad is a total nerd. And he's got all of these books around him and he learns about the scientific method and how science works and how history works and how maths works. And so when he gets his letter at the age of 11 saying, "You've been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." He's like, "Wait, what?" And he doesn't believe it. And then Professor McGonagal comes to his house and like has to convince him that like magic is legit.
Then he's like, "Wo, sick." And then he goes to Hogwarts, but instead of being Harry, he's like Harry who's sort of this sort of autistic soant type character where he's like super sciency and clever and mathsy and like giving Hermione a run for her money, but also he's a bit like socially uh inept and you know a little bit obnoxious and struggles to make friends and stuff. And so that is kind of the premise of this of like what would happen if Harry went to Hogwarts but actually was like testing the principles of magic to sort of understand the physics of the magic system of Harry Potter. So, for example, you know, wingardium leviosa, what the hell?
How the hell did someone come up with that incantation? Like, what does it even mean? Like, why is it that those specific words in Latin lead to that particular thing? Like, if you were to change the incantation, what would happen? Huh? Is there a limit to what kind of weight or mass you can lift with Wingardium Leiosa? And so, he's running these freaking experiments with Hermione because she's into this stuff as well. Obviously, she's a nerd. And so, that's just like scratching the surface. That's sort of like the premise. And the methods of rationality, 662,000 words, basically covers Harry's first year. So, the Philosopher Stone is a thing. It's still Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, but man, like it's
just so sick. I don't want to give more away than this. And the really cool thing is because this is like super popular, um, the community around it, like people who have enjoyed reading this fanfiction actually have created their own like audiobook version of it. One thing I should have said is all fanfiction is completely free. JK Rowling does not allow anyone to monetize it. So, you're not allowed to monetize it. So, you can read all Harry Potter fanfiction for free on the internet. It does not put any money into JK Rowling's pocket if that's something that concerns you. And so the fans of The Methods of Rationality have actually turned it into a whole audio book with like, you know, sound effects and like
voice acting and the whole shebang. So I read it. I read the first, I don't know, 200,000 words of it and then I listened to the next 462,000 words of it. It was really good. So I will put some links in the video description to how you can download this. It is slightly annoying the process of reading fanfiction because there's like these two websites, fanfiction.net and then AO3 and mostly they're available in EPUB format. And so what I do is I use my Kindle and I send the Epub to my Kindle and then I read it on the Kindle. So that would be my recommended approach to fanfiction. I'll put a link in the video description to all of the relevant EPUB files so that you can just send them to your Kindle if
you want or you can read them on your phone or I'm sure you can find a way to read Epop files. There's no romance in Methods of Rationality unfortunately cuz Harry's freaking 11. Uh there's no R-rated stuff so you don't need to worry that this is any of these like you know Fifty Shades of Gray nonsense. There's going to be more of that in some of the books that we're going to talk about further down the line. But this is sort of like pure it's just really good. It's really good. It's got some elements of the Hunger Games in it. It's got some elements of like ah man. I don't want to ruin it. I want it to be a surprise when you start reading it and you're like holy freaking wo. I recommended it to
a few friends, practically all of them who got through the first like five chapters cuz it, you know, it's a bit of a slow start. It's like a TV show or an anime like you got to give it a little bit of time. Replied to me being like, "Holy moly, like I cannot believe how good this is." uh one of my friends moms, she's in her like she's like 65 or something. She, you know, is a big Harry Potter fan and was like, "Oh my god, this is incredible." So like it really spans all age groups. And so would totally recommend Harry Potter and the Methods of Irrationality. Book number two is The Debt of Time by an author called Sha Lonnie. This is 727,000 words. So again, the entire Harry Potter
series is 1.1 million. This is 727,000 words. And man, I wish it was 1.5 million. Like, I could not get enough of this book. So sick. This is also split up into like four books, I think, but like, you know, it's all in one EPUB file. So, you read it on your Kindle and like loads of [__] is going on and you're like, "Wait a minute, I'm like 1% through the book. Oh my god, how big is this?" And so then I started looking at word counts and I was like, "Yes, basically the longer the better." Uh, in my book, what happens in the Death of Time. So, this is a fanfiction based on Hermione's point of view. Everything happens the same up until the end of the Order of the Phoenix. So, you now have
the end of the Order of the Phoenix. They go into the Department of Mysteries and then the Order of the Phoenix comes along and then the famous duel between Bellatrix and Sirius and then Sirius dies. Sorry if you haven't read it, but Sirius dies, goes through the veil and Harry's like, "Oh my gosh, Sirius is dead." Like, oh my god. All that kind of stuff. And it's like a really sad moment because we really like Sirius back. So, that happens at the end of the Order of the Phoenix. And then at the end of the Half-Blood Prince, again, as you know, spoiler, Dumbledore dies. You know, Snape does this thing where he vatavas Dumbledore. And so the death of time starts out at the end of the half blood
prince. So just before the deathly hallows when they're about to go off on their little camping adventure to find, you know, all the horcruxes and stuff. And Harry says to Hermione, he's like, "Hermione, mate, like there's got to be a way to bring back the dead because we got to save Dumbledore. Like we can't do this [__] without Dumbledore, right? There's got to be a way to bring back the dead." And so Hermione obviously then goes to the restricted section of the library to try and figure out like, is there any kind of rituals or dark magic or blood magic any or any of this sort of stuff that can bring back the dead. She realizes that she can't really bring back Dumbledore because he was a
Vatican Avarad and you can't bring back someone from that. But she sees this little thing that's like there's this ritual, this blood magic ritual that lets you bring someone back from beyond the veil. And she's like, "Wait a minute, the veil. Sirius went through the veil. He didn't really get a he got veiled. So, could I bring Sirius Black back from the dead?" All of this happens in like chapter 1 of like fre 300 chapters. So, I'm not really giving much away. This is like literally the premise of the book. So, Hermione manages to bring Sirius Black back from the dead. You wouldn't think that this would be a premise worthy of 772,000 words, but it really is because Sirius's
presence in the Deathly Hallows changes everything, right? Because now it's not Harry, Ron, and Hermione on the little camping trip. It's Harry, Hermione, and Sirius because obviously he's helping him out trying to find the Horcruxes. And I'm going to leave it at that. It's so good. It's incredible. There is some romance and like a handful of R-rated scenes in this. They're not really central to the plot. So, if you're weird and you don't like R-rated scenes, you are welcome to like skip those cuz they're not that central to the plot. But, there is sort of like a few different threads of romance which I personally really like. It wasn't overdone. It's not like Fifty Shades of Gray where it's like literally the only
point is, you know, the story line is kind of secondary. The romance and all that stuff is sort of primary. This is very much like the romance is a thread that goes through it. The R-rated scenes are like skippable if you don't like them for whatever reason. But, man, this is an incredible story. Absolutely incredible story. And I literally cried when it ended. It was like the same tears I shed at the end of the Deathly Hallows. I had those tears at the end of the Death of Time. So that would be recommendation number two. Although to be honest, you can probably read this in any kind of order depending on what you like. I would recommend starting out with the Methods of Rationality though because
it's so easy to listen to because it's an audio book uh kind of by default. You can turn all the rest of these into audio books using something like Speechify or something like that. But like obviously it's better when it's actually recorded as an audio book with voice actors and with like sound effects and background music and all that kind of stuff which is what you get with the methods of rationality. So now we're going to come to book number three. Book number three is a series of four books that totals currently 1.4 million words. Again the entirety of Harry Potter is 1.1 million words. So these four books are longer than the entire Harry Potter series and it's you add in another Goblet of Fire and you get like the Riel Black
Chronicles. These four books, the first four books are sort of like one arc of the anime and the fifth book, the author, her name is Murky Blue Matter, has started writing the fifth one, but the last update was in like June 2022. And so I'm like, uh, what I recommend you do is if you trust my recommendations on this, is you read up until the end of book four, which is the first arc of the anime, and it sort of rounds the series together very nicely. and I will let you know or you can keep an eye on the discord forum uh when book five becomes like is a you know becomes more active. So this is one where I was not expecting to enjoy it because the premise of the Riel Black Chronicles is that it's an alternative
universe. Now in this alternative universe two things are crucially different. Thing number one is that Voldemort does not become an evil dark lord. He actually becomes a politician. The politician Lord Riddle and he's the head of like the pure blood supremacist kind of party. and he manages to pass through this legislation that makes Hogwarts only available for pureb blood students. And so you're not allowed to go to Hogwarts unless you're a pure blood. Obviously Dumbledore's trying to oppose this. And so Dumbledore is sort of like the opposition political faction to Lord Riddle and his uh so party is what is what they call it. But there's
no Death Eaters, you know, there's no like people getting cruced and killed and stuff. Sort of is like in the background, but it's not like the foreground like it was in sort of cannon Voldemort's like evil reign. So it's quite like politically based if you're into that sort of thing. But the second crucial twist in this alternative universe is that Harry Potter is in fact Harriet Potter. She's in fact a girl. Now, why is this meaningful? Well, it's meaningful because she really wants to go to Hogwarts. The reason she really wants to go to Hogwarts is because she has a love of potions. And the best potions master in the world is Master Sea Snape, and he teaches at Hogwarts. And so, Harriet Potter, the daughter of Lilian James
Potter, really, really, really wants to go to Hogwarts to study under Master Sea Snape because she's freaking addicted to potions. She's like a potions savant, a pro potions prodigy. She's been reading like potioner weekly since she was like three. She's been experimental brewing in her spare time. She knows everything about potions, but she's not allowed to go to Hogwarts because she's a half blood because James is pure blood. Pure blood of Potter family. But then Lily Evans was famously a mongleborn. And so Harriet Potter is a half-blood. The whole premise is that Harriet Potter is trying to get to Hogwarts. And this is still like chapter one, by the way, so I'm not like giving that many details
away. Now Sirius has a kid. That kid's name is Archie. And Archie is a pureb blood wizard who really does not want to go to Hogwarts cuz he really wants to be a healer. And the American Institute of Magic, which is the Hogwarts of America, is has a really good healer track. And so Archie really wants to go to AIM. Harriet does not want to go to AIM cuz you, you know, the American Institute of Magic accept half bloodoods cuz they're like anti-pure blood supremacy and all that kind of stuff, you know, rightly so. And so Archie and Harriet concoct this big plot where they're going to swap places with each other. So Archie is going to pretend to be Harry and go to the American Institute of Magic where
he meets Hermione Granger, who's a, you know, muggleborn who also goes to AIM to try and become a healer. And Harriet Potter is going to polyjuice herself into becoming Archie Black, a dude, and she's going to go to Hogwarts to try and learn potions from Master Sea Snape. Now Harriet, masquerading as Archie, gets sorted into Slytherin and ends up sharing a dorm room with like Draco Malfoy and like those people and so and becomes like Snape's protege, shall we say? And all of this [__] happens in like chapter 3. And then you've got 1.4 million words of stuff that happens as a result of this like swapperoo. And the reason I was not expecting to enjoy this when I first like saw the plot summary
cuz someone recommended it on Reddit, I was like, "Oh, come on. This is going to be one of these trashy crappy boy swaps and pretends to be a girl. A girl pretends to be a [__] boy. Oh, it's going to be some it's a boy girl thing kind of nonsense." H But then, you know, these guys on Reddit were pretty keen and I was like, "You know what? I really should not judge a book by its premise. Uh I should not judge Harry Potter fanfiction by its premise and I'm so glad I did. Again, I cried when this one uh when this one was over. I regret how fast I read it because I was like, "Oh man, I could have I should have savored this for like twice
as long as I did. I would say this is actually of the five that I'm recommending probably my favorite one." And I'm so sad that like the author has not made any updates since like June of 2022. She apparently like moved to Taiwan and had a baby and stuff. And the Discord group for this is still active. There's still like I think like a thousand people on there. is sort of waiting desperately for Violet to like, you know, write her updates on the thing. So, Murky Blue Master, if you happen to be watching this video, please, we need book five. We need it. We need it so badly. It's so sick. Anyway, links will be down below to like the e-pubs and stuff. It's incredible. Absolutely incredible. You
will not regret reading the Riel Black Chronicles. All right, now we come to recommendation number four. By the way, if you actually follow these recommendations, the next two years of your life are sorted by just like going with my Harry Potter fanfiction recommendations. And I'm sure I'll have more beyond that point. So, like honestly, just like follow my recommendations in the right reading order, and I guarantee your life will change. Anyway, book number four is called Backwards with Purpose. How many words is this? This is a bit short. This is only 392,000 words. Um, which is about a third of the entire Harry Potter cannon because that's 1.1 million words. So, again, I was sad by how few
words were in this. I was like, ah, it's only 336,000 words. This is really good. It's split up into two books. For any of these things, I would say do don't look up any spoilers. Don't even look up the titles of the books cuz I'm going to be as minimally spoiler as I possibly can. So, I'm not going to tell you the title of book two because the title of book two somewhat gives some of the game away from book one. So, do not look at what the title of book two is if you trust my recommendations on this. I did not and I was so glad I didn't. Here's the premise. Backwards with purpose. Uh the premise is in the Battle of Hogwarts, the final battle of Hogwarts, the good guys win. Sure, Voldemort gets defeated,
but Voldemort is a lot more vicious than he was in cannon. And he decides, screw all the Hogwarts students. I'm going to take some fiend fire and I'm going to unleash it through the entire school. And so the battle of Hogwarts ends with pretty much every man, woman, and child in Hogwarts having been like burned alive by fiend fire. And so the only survivors really that we care about is Harry, Ron, and Jinny. They are the three survivors of the Battle of Hogwarts. Ammani's dead. All the Weasley are dead. Dumbledore's obviously dead. He died in book six. McDonald's. Like everyone's dead except Harry, Ron, and Jinny. This is set like 3 years after the events of the Deathly Hallows. And
Harry, Ron, and Jinny are freaking depressed. They're like on the verge of killing themselves because they're like literally what's the point of living? The wizarding world is a shell of its former self. All of our loved ones are dead. Like Herman's gone, everyone's gone. They asked the question, "What if we went back in time and we were able to save more people? We were still able to defeat Voldemort, but like, you know, the cost was too high. What if we could save more people in the final battle of Hogwarts?" They go to Dumbledore's portrait in Hogwarts. Again, all this happens in like chapter 1, so no
spoilers. Uh, they go to Dumbledore's portrait at Hogwarts. And like, Dumbledore, mate, we need to go back in time and we need to stop all these people from getting killed. And Dumbledore's portrait is really helpful. He's like, "Guys, there's this dodgy ritual called the Tears of Merlin that will take you like 4 years to do, but because it's like this massive ass potion, but this potion can actually help you travel back in time. Time toners only go so far, but the tears of Merlin will take you back to 1991 or like, you know, Harry's first year, except you'll the three of you will go back in time and you will have perfect knowledge of everything that happened the first time around." And so all of
this happens in like chapter 1. And so the next 333,000 words of this are what happens when Harry, Ron, and Jinny go back in time to year 1, i.e. the philosopher stone when they're like 11 and 10 with all of the knowledge, all of the powers, all of the skills that they've got, but they're in the body of a freaking 11-year-old, 11-year-old, and 10-year-old. And they're going to Hogwarts for the first time. And they are trying to change time in a way that doesn't like tiny wimy destroy the world, but in a way that like ensures their victory without like all these people dying along the way. Just imagine this. Imagine Harry and Ron and Jenny going back and already being freaking legendary witch like or you know
freaking like insanely powerful like witches and wizards. Ron has scabbers. Obviously we know who Scabers really is. Like they know all of this stuff. They're like holy [__] [__] scab that [__] like but wait we can't let him know about it because like we don't want him to like [__] like run away and like you know stage the Askaban mass breakout that happened in book three because Scabers like we obviously know who Scabs is all this sort of stuff and they have all this knowledge right? So imagine what their interactions with, you know, when Snape giving Harry grief in like the first potions class and
Harry is not really 11. He's really like freaking 25 and he's already been through all of this [__] and he knows that Snape's a good guy and he knows that Snape used to love his mom and he knows all of this stuff. Imagine what would happen and how sick it would be if you could do that. That's the next 332,000 words. And it's got like some murder mystery elements. It's got like secret puppeteer puppet master whose identity is unknown kind of elements. Again, like when I find myself describing these like book recommendations, it would be very easy for someone to dismiss it to be like, "When we're at 10, let's just destroy the horcruxes, right? Cuz we know what they are and we know where
they are." It's like, but no, it's not that simple. It's obviously not that simple cuz if it was, it would be like 5,000 words, not 332,000 words. It's a really, really good premise. It's time travel done really, really well. A lot of books in the Harry Potter fanfiction world and other fanfictions have the concept of time travel, but obviously time travel is hard to it's hard to get right. I think everyone kind of agrees JK Rowling sort of screwed up with the whole time travel thing because you know you introduce the time toner in the prison of Aszkaban and then no one mentions it until they just
happen to get destroyed in the hall of prophecy or whatever in the department of mysteries in like book five at the end of book five but like the time toner would have solved a [__] ton of problems right but like from book four onwards is it's as if time toners don't exist except like a perunctry mention at the you know in the department of mysteries in order of the phoenix and so JK Rowling didn't do time travel that well because there's all sorts of plot holes like why couldn't you have time turner to stop Voldemort from like rising in book four you and all of that kind of stuff.
Backwards with purpose, the two books do the time travel premise really well. And one thing in books in like fiction in general is that, you know, there's this idea that sometimes uh what's it called? It's a trope, the idiot hat, I think is what they call it, where it's sort of a character is wearing the idiot hat where they're doing something that you're like, oh, it's so obviously a freaking stupid thing to like why would you do that, right? But they're wearing the idiot hat because they have to for the sake of the plot. There's maybe a couple of instances of the idiot hat being worn in this whole series backwards with purpose but for the most part like the characters are intelligent. They take
the time to understand how time travel works before like screwing around with it. It's it's not as simple as oh why couldn't you just dot a dot because they will have thought of that and it will not have worked for various reasons or they might have tried it and resulted in all sorts of catastrophes. So really good short series 332,000 words only uh backwards with purpose by dead woodpecker. And then finally, book number five I'm going to mention is called Manacold and it's by the author Sen Linu. And how long is this? This is 371,000 words. Again, canon is 1.1 million. So, it's about 0.4 times the length of the entire series. And it's really good.
Now, Manacold is interesting. It's actually been turned into a proper book. It's been turned into a book called Alchemist, which came out recently, like a few months ago, and sold like hundreds of thousands of copies in its first week. Manold is a Harry Potter fanfiction that's set in a post-apocalyptic Voldemort has won era. So Harry's dead, Ron's dead, everyone's dead because Voldemort won the final battle of Hogwarts. And basically the premise is I'm talking with my mouth full, but like we're supposed to be having lunch and my sticks getting cold. But basically the premise is Voldemort has won. All the good guys are dead. But you know the Death Eaters and the Pure Blood families lost a lot of, you know, good
guys and stuff during the war. And so Voldemort institutes a breeding program. And what he does is that all of the women that we know and love from the Harry Potter series, including Hermione, including Jinny, you know, all of the girls from the Harry Potter series, they all get like press ganged into this forced breeding program where they have to basically become the concubines of these like pure blood heads of houses and stuff so that they can like repopulate the wizarding world with like pure blood and all that crap. All of that happens in like chapter 1. So that's sort of like the premise that we're going into this with. It's like super dark. The interesting thing here is that Hermione ends up as Draco
Malfoy's girl where he and all of the other like Slytherins, death eaters and stuff are basically forced by Voldemort to do this like forced to breeding program. So this is super dark. All sorts of trigger warnings as you can imagine with this sort of premise. It's really dark. You've got a lot of torture. You got a lot of like I mean other than the cruciatist curse, you don't really see like what could magic do if you were really intent on causing someone pain and harm. You don't really see that kind of thing. You don't see, you know, you hear intimations about how, you know, the first wizarding world pre Voldemort being vanquished by Harry back in the day, you know, when, you know, the Puits died and when like,
you know, the order was first a thing. You hear about how it was like really terrible and all these people like died and stuff, but it's all like in the background. You don't really see it firsthand up close, but in Manicold, you see a lot of that firsthand up close. And it's sort of like Voldemort and the Death Eaters, but like a level of viciousness ramped up like 10x to what it is in cannon. and like the Order of the Phoenix also having to do like really dodgy things to like does the end justify the means? Like if they're inventing all of these like insanely powerful curses to like destroy our people and we're like trying to not cause too much collateral damage like you know all of this sort of stuff. So there's a lot of these sorts
of themes that are overlaid on this background of like this force breeding program and this sort of rel relationship in inverted commas between like Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger and like the whole backstory and all of this stuff super dark super depressing at times really quite like disturbing in a lot of places but really good and really hard to put down and it's been turned into like this phenomenally bestselling book that people seem to love. So these are my Harry Potter fanfiction recommendations. I'll put a link down below to the Epop files for all of them. I'd love to hear a comment down below if you like some of these. And I'm in the market for more Harry Potter fanfiction recommendations. I'm currently reading
Alexandra Quick series. Um, which starts off a bit slow. That's 1.5 million words. It's even longer than the Rise of Black Chronicles. Um, starts off a bit slow, but like I'm starting to get into it now in like book two. And there's a few others that I've read over the, you know, over the last few months, but I'm not really mentioning them here. In particular, I really, you know, there's quite a few Harry Potter fanfigs. They're not serious. I think they're called crackfix in like the terminology where it's sort of like you know there's one I was reading called the seventh horcrux and it's sort of like when Voldemort tried to kill Harry when Harry was a baby you know
Voldemort's soul latched onto Harry you know we all know this obviously Harry's a horcrux but actually Harry is actually a dark lord because Voldemort part of Voldemort's personality is now in Harry and so Harry is like this like evil dark lord character when he gets into Hogwarts but it's a bit [snorts] too jokey it's a bit too non-serious like it's like banter and it's like supposed to be funny and stuff but I much prefer it when the books are written with sincerity as if it's an actual book rather than just sort of poking fun at a premise. So that's why I read a few of these poking fun ones and I didn't really enjoy it. I love it when they're sincerely taking the premise like super sincerely and they're really
really good. So anyway, that's it for this video. Thanks for watching. See you next time. Bye.
