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Sunday, May 10, 2015

A Very Potter Senior Year

A Very Potter Senior Year is the conclusion of the trilogy of Harry Potter musicals. Different from the previous musicals, it takes the form of a live staged reading of the script. The story features the senior year of Harry and that it's time to say goodbye.


Spoiler Alert!


At the beginning, the Death Eaters try to retrieve Tom Riddle's diary from the Ministry, but are stopped by Ron. Ron, Hermione, Luna, and Neville are chased by a group of Death Eaters after leaving the Room of Death in the Ministry.

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You must think that she looks familiar! She is Evanna Lynch, who portrays Luna in the Harry Potter film series. She also plays Luna in this musical!

This is the End
We will win or we will lose the fight
Either way it's the end, no use to pretend
It's the final show, we gotta go meet our destiny

This is the end!
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Inspiringly, Harry rescues them just as he would save everyone before and sees through Barty Crouch Jr. disguising as Mad-Eye. Before taken to Azakaban, Barty tells Harry that he is no more important to the wizarding world since that Voldemort has been defeated and he need not to save anyone any more.

 
 
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There is something wrong with Ron and Hermione because Hermione is obsessed with reading young adult novels and wouldn't kiss Ron! XDDD
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Not knowing the power of the diary, Harry sends it to Ginny as a present. At breakfast, Ron is given the keys to his father's car, and he flies Harry, Hermione, and Ginny to Hogwarts to start their senior year.
Senior Year
It's a very Potter senior year! Senior year!
We're not just kids anymore...

Senior year! Senior year!
Better than ever before...
 
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Harry stills refuses being Draco's friend after Droco saves them from punishment of destroying the crop of mandrakes and killing Professor Sprout, and they've shared much time together, even in Pigfarts!

Soon after, Harry and Draco are announced as the candidates for the Head Boy election, and Hermione happily discovers that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is her favorite author, Gilderoy Lockhart.
 
 
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Gilderoy
Who's wiser than a warlock, and tougher than a troll
And charming as a candy cane?
Who's faster than a phoenix, and sly as a sphinx
And always set to entertain?

Here to give this sagging tale a hero to employ
Look up to the skies, now look in my eyes
It's Gilderoy!
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Jealous with Lockhart's popularity, Harry breaks up with Ginny because she is normal and is the obstruction against his being famous.
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As Ginny cries in the lavatory, she meets the ghost, Moaning Myrtle.
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These two pictures are magic! XDDDD
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Writing the diary sadly, Ginny is fallen under Riddle's spell because the diary,which insists that it's a journal because diaries are for girls, actually contains the last piece of Riddle's soul. The diary shows her a piece of past...

 
 
 
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Riddle is an orphan; however, there's something special about him: his fingers sparkle when he is in happiness. Hence, Dumbledore comes to the orphanage to invite him to study at Hogwarts. To convince that he is not evil, Dumbledore tells his own story, killing his sister while having a fight with his boyfriend. XDDD

Always Dance
Always dance
Always dance
Though they'll try to stop you always dance
Shut your mouth and stop your yapping
Take your foot and set it tapping
He was born a magic boy, so leap and twirl and prance
Always, always, always, always, always, always dance!
 
 
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Remember in A Harry Potter Musical that as soon as Voldermort is revived, the first thing he wants to do is to dance? Now we know it's Dumbledore inspires his interest in dancing!

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Back in reality, Hermione waits to receive an autograph from Lockhart. After showing her fan fiction works to Lockart, she is tasked to write Harry's biography, each year in a book.
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Harry hears a weird voice that no one can hear. Soon after, Colin Creevey is discovered petrified on the floor and a message written in blood is left declaring that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Harry then finds the opportunity to regain his fame, saving others again.

Writing the diary again, Ginny is brought into another flashback.

A murder happens in Hogwarts...
 
 
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The appearance on Dumbledore's and Riddle's always makes me laugh until my sides ache. XDD

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Dumbledore succeeds to persuade Riddle to visit his home, where his father and grandparents live.

When You Have To Go All The Way Home

Back in the present, while Harry is dating with Cho, he sees Ginny accompanied by Seamus and Dean and is jealous. Not accompanied by Hermione, who is busy writing Lockart's assignment, Ron is kissed on the cheek by Lavender Brown and consider it an act of betrayal on her.
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Harry hears the Basilisk again.With Hermione and Ron, he finds Nearly Headless Nick, who is also pertrified, and notices that Ginny is there again. The trio follow a trail of spiders and meet Aragog in the Forbidden Forest.

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Get In My Mouth
When I look at you I think of one thing
I feel embarrassed cause I know it's obscene
I want you, I need you
I'll teach you what it's like to party with me

I'm getting hungry baby
It's time to feed!
Aragog tries to the trio, but Hagrid shows up and saves them.
 
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Darren Criss can't help laughing while sitting on Hagrid's thighs. XDDD This scene might reminds you that Up also sits on Bug's thighs in Starship!
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Ginny is shown the flashback again. Riddle goes back to his home, but he discovers that his family are muggles in horror. In the end, he murders all of them.

In the present, Harry and Draco tie in the election, and Lockhart proposes a wizard duel to decide the winner. Because of Harry's treating him bad, Draco finally sees Harry as his enemy.

The School Is Mine
At last the lines are drawn into the sand
At last I know exactly where I stand
You may think that I'm on the decline
But tonight this school is mine!

Yes, tonight this school is mine!
Yes, tonight this school is mine!
To confront the snake Draco conjures with the Serpensortia spell, Harry reveals his Parseltongue ability, which makes the entire school believe that he is the Slytherin's heir. Lockhart then sarts a talk implying that Harry makes the monster petrify the students and causes alarms in order to be popular after saving them again, Draco then is announced as the new Head Boy. 

 
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Lamenting, Harry decides to leave the school although his friends tries hard to stop him.
I really like the friendship between Harry and Ron!

I Was
There was a time before, I was adored
By every son and daughter
There was a time when I was happy
When I was Harry Potter
Riddle finally reveals that he is Voldemort to Ginny, and he has been strong enough to fully control her.
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The 341st petrified student appears and the school will be closed unless the Chamber of Secret is found and the monster is defeated.
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Draco reveals that Ron cheats on Hermione, causing the two's break up. To take revenge on Ron, Hermione decides to cheat on him with Lockhart.
 
 
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 Just as Dumbledore said, Draco is a piece of shit, but a cute one! XDDD

 
 
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However, Hermione fails to seduce Lockhart. Instead, he makes her sign a release form which turns the rights to her Harry Potter stories and changes it which makes it a lot like Rowling's work. XDD

How can they not laugh? I admire them so much!!!

 
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Voldemort having Ginny search for the Resurrection Stone in the headmaster's office, Hermione discovers that Riddle's diary is actually a horcrux, which causing being petrified by the Basilisk.

Finding Hermione in the infirmary, Ron regrets and decides to look for the way to save her.
Sidekick
I know I'm not a leading man
I know I'm not a star
But I know what makes me special
Is what I feel in my heart

I'm just a sidekick
But I love being at your side!
It's one of my favorite songs! The warm affection of Ron is so touching. Please listen to it!!!!

 
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Knowing the truth from the note Hermione holds in hand, Ron agrees to cooperates with Draco. The two boys drink Draco's Felix Felicis potion, and Draco is looking for the Chamber of Secrets while Ron is searching for Harry.

  
  
  
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Ron runs into Lockhart while his searching, and Lockhart tells him his plan to sell Harry Potter novels to the muggle world and that the young adult novels he writes is actually from the muggle world. The wizard cops show up, who prepare to close Hogwarts, and chase Lockhart.

 
 
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At Godric's Hollow, Harry sees his statue replaced by a statue of Spider-man and finds out that the statue is Andrew Garfieldrather's version rather than Tobey Maguire's, in which he realizes that nothing lasts forever, not even the Sam Raimi trilogy of Spider-Man movies!(By the way, I like Tobey Maguire's version more. XDDD) Shortly after, Ron comes and tries to persuade Harry to return to Hogwarts and save them; however, Harry refuses. Disappointed in Harry, Ron leaves the necktie, which represents the Gryffindor House, and tells him that they are no longer friends.
  
    
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This is yours. Y'know what it means?
The house of the brave. The house of the good guys.
Harry, you got sorted in this house for a reason.
When I see them choke up, I fail to stop choking up, too. Knowing that the girl he loves is lying in the hospital and that his best friend isn't brave enough to save them, Ron must have a tough time since Harry is his last hope.

I have once seen a theory, which says that the trio are actually representations of the other three houses. Harry is Slytheryn, Ron is Hufflepuff, and Hermione is Ravenclaw. Nonetheless, they're in Gryffindor because they asked. One has to ask to be a Gryffindor because their most defending feature is bravery, and anyone can choose to be brave. I think that's why Harry Potter series are so popular because it's a story of brave people willing to do things that we are too scared to do. Reading their stories, we think we are as brave as them, and we are capable of doing everything they would do.
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Harry finds the Resurrection Stone, and the ghosts of the ones he loves appear to encourage him.


Everything Ends/Goin' Back To Hogwarts
Everything ends
Everything ends
Everything ends
Everything ends

After the sun has had its rest
It will arise and light up the sky
You can't hold on to what's past
Nothing is made to last
I consider this song the most touching one in StarKid's history. It not only reminds Harry that fame won't last but also tells the audience that this is the last Harry Potter musical and no matter how hard the audience want another sequel, there won't be one. It's genuinely a good-bye song.

 
 
 
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The most interesting part is that when Harry's mother tells him that she has divorced with his father and married with another guy, every audience think the guy is Snape, but he is actually Cedric, the boy who is killed in A Harry Potter Musical! XDDD

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Snape also shows up and tells Harry what he did to save Harry isn't for people to like him but because it's right.

Harry finally ties the tie.

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Darren Criss actually ties the tie wrong so he curses during singing. XDDDD
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Harry and Ron go back to Hogwarts where they team up with other students, Sorty, and Scarfy to fight the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, which is found by Draco.

Inside the Chamber, they see a flying diary because only the one who has touched the diary can see Voldemort.

 
 
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The actor, Joe Walker, who plays Voldemort forgets that Harry can't see him because he hasn't touched the diary, and Darren can't hold his laughter. XDDD
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Voldemort send out the Basilisk, and Scarfy protects the students by covering up its eyes so that it can not see where the students are. However, Voldemort kills Scarfy at last.

To motivate the students, Sorty, which is married with Scarfy, tells them that Scarfy wouldn't want to see them sad. He would wants them to be gay. XDDDD

 
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Irritated, Harry pulls the sword of Gryffindor from Sorty and slays the Basilisk, but gets bitten. As Voldemort gets dizzy with success and explains to Harry how he would use the Resurrection Stone to exchange Ginny's life to make himself come back, Harry stabs the diary with the sword, eventually killing the fragment of Voldemort's soul.

  
  
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Hagrid finally arrives and brings Fawkes with him, and its healing tears rescue Harry.
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All the petrified students, except for Colin, recover, and Hermione comes to the Chamber and tells Ron she knows how brave he is because she is conscious when being petrified. Ron pulls an engagement ring from Scarfy, which is says that only the one who has true love can pull a ring from, and proposes to Hermione. Hermione accepts while Draco and Ron are arguing that Hermione actually accepts their own proposals.

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At last, Harry finally accepts Draco as friend!

All the students leaving Hogwarts, Harry still stands there recalling all the times he had at Hogwarts. Ron comes back to pick him up. Harry says goodbye to Hogwarts for the last time and leaves with Ron.

 
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Take it easy Hogwarts.
It has been... totally awesome.
My tears roll down my face every time I hear the line, which is consistent with the first song of the Harry Potter musicals... I think it's one of the reasons why I love trilogy, including Batman's and Spider-Man's movies! You could see so many tiny things, which you once thought of as insignificant, mentioned, and suddenly you find out it's to much for you to bear because of the connection and all the time you have spent with them...
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Nineteen years later, Harry takes his son, Albus Scarfy Potter, to platform 9¾. As he returns, a girl shows up and he runs into a man who looks familiar!

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It turns out that the man is Quirrell, but Harry fails to recognize him. XDD

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Voldemort is bound to the back of Quirrell's head, and they also send their child to Hogwarts. Quirrell asks Voldemort if they have to catch Harry, and Voldemort tells him that Harry Potter teaches him love and it is okay to accept defeat.



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As the same last line from the first Harry Potter musical, Quirrell replies, "Okay is wonderful."

The Harry Potter musicals make StarKid famous, but everything ends. Even though we don't want to accept it, many things change. The original actress of Hermione left StarKid, and Darren Criss has to spend most of his time doing other things. StarKid is changing, and I think it would lead to a positive direction.




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