Hank Green This Is Not Harry Potter lyrics

This Is Not Harry Potter by Hank Green


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