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Uploaded on Nov 17, 2010

Are you ready for a Nerdy Valentines Day? http://bit.ly/WekHqK
In which Hank sings "This is Not Harry Potter. Lyrics below.

Also, join Hank as he plays games at http://www.youtube.com/hankgames

Subconsciously inspired by Horrible Fiction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_qot...


Something just occured to me as I was reading
another book I'd heard was the next big thing
I thought what would I give, if it could be true
If I could ever feel again the way I felt when I read you
I'd pay a million galeons
Or Dress up like I go to beauxbatons
I'd tattoo my head with a lighting bolt
I'd pawn my wand and firebolt




But no matter how many good things I'm told
Everything I ever read turns out to be leprechaun gold

It's been so many years no matter how I try
to read more young adult fiction
I keep coming up dry
it's like water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
my frustration and my agony have pushed me to the brink
I keep tilting back the glass but I never taste the water
it seems no matter what I read I think "this is not harry potter."

I was pretty impressed with frankie landau banks
but compare saving the world with a few epic pranks
There is no monoploy on non-human people
there's faerie's buggers talking cats and nac mac feegle
And thirteen little blue envelopes
Was fantastic but my sneakoscope
would be flashing and spinning if I said
That it was the best book I've read
And you gotta know that this is no joke
That I also read books that my own brother wrote

It's been so many years no matter how I try
to read more young adult fiction
I keep coming up dry
it's like water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
my frustration and my agony have pushed me to the brink
I keep tilting back the glass but I never taste the water
it seems no matter what I read I think "this is not harry potter."

And in the darkest hours, of my darkest nights
I found myself curled up with twilight
And I couldn't help but wonder as I ravenously read
can you avada kedavra the undead
'cause edward cullen totally has it comin'
and if he saw voldemort he'd better start runnin'
cause there's not much that the dark lord and i
could agree on but I think that we would both hate that guy
Sir nicholas de mimsy porpington
Is a character name that, all by itself, is better than breaking dawn

It's been so many years no matter how I try
to read more young adult fiction
I keep coming up dry
President Snow is no voldemort
Diagon Alley is cooler than Ankh Mor Pork
And Lyra Silvertoungue is Mrs. Coulter's Daughter
That's a good plot twist but it is not harry potter.

CHORDS
lyrics
[A] - - - [G] - - -
[A] - - - [G] - - -
D A G D
G D A D
F#m - G -
A - - - D - - -
G - - - A - - -

CHORUS
D - G D
A - G D
F#m - G -
A - - -
D - G -
A - - -
G - - -
D - - -


HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS:

Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers
Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green
John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo

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Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon
Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen
John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans
John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com

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Other Channels
Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse
SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow
Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames
VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon
Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel
Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail

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http://nerdfighteria.info/

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  • thursdays11

    "WHEN DRAGONS BELCH AND HIPPOS FLEE, MY THOUGHTS ANKH-MORPORK ARE OF THEE!"

    I cherish Harry, and I adore this song, but I don't know whether to shamelessly rejoice that you've read Terry Pratchett or heave a lonely sigh because you prefer Diagon Alley over Ankh-Morpork. Although, now that I think about it, it's difficult to compare the roiling genius and satire of Pratchett with the harmonious brilliance that is Harry Potter. But I digress- Discworld forever!

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  • Panthuras

    This is how i feel about all the books i read, Twilight, The Hunger Games, Inkheart, The House of Night, His Dark Materials, Percy Jakcson, Septimus Heap, Night World, Black Magician Trilogy, Inheritence, Hitch Hikkers Guide to the Galaxy, Wee Free Men, etc

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  • William Sebren

    I've listened to the Harry Potter series on audiobook read by Stephen Fry 7 times in a row now. Seriously, it hasn't gotten old yet. It's actually gotten better. I'm not ashamed.

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  • Alanna Narwhal

    Turn on the automatic captions. OXEGEN AND MAGNESIUM (the nerdy version of OMG)

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  • Alanna Narwhal

    And look alike.

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  • Ian Switzer

    NOOOOOO they just post on the same youtube chanel and have the same last name

    note sarcasm

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  • Charlotte B

    omg harry potter!!!

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  • Lapaleja

    I hear you! And I've read them so often now that I can almost recite them... there will never be something like it... will there? *sigh*

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  • Noah Topper

    I'm still reading them, but yeah, they're pretty good! But there's, like, 30 something of them!! Also, they are not Harry Potter.

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  • Noah Topper

    You should check out The Last Apprentice and Artemis Fowl if you haven't already.

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  • greentea bakehouse

    jhon green is you brother?

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  • KrisGlasier

    What about the Wheel of Time?

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