“Yer a Wizard Harry!” Chapter 4, clearly inspired a lot of wizard rock bands to make music about the day Harry learned the truth about himself. Featured bands include: Ollivander, Harry and the Potters, Kwikspell, Sam, Jonathan Mann, Mudblud, The Basilisk in Your Pasta, Let’s Lumos, The Bandon Banshees, and Tonks and the Aurors. 

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Chapter 4: The Keeper of the Keys

There is another loud boom on the door and Dudley wakes up, thinking it is a cannon. Uncle Vernon comes through with a rifle, with Aunt Petunia cowering behind him. The door is blasted off its hinges and hits the floor. A giant enters and fixes the door into its frame. [“Enter Hagrid” by Ollivander] The giant asks for a cup of coffee then sits on the couch next to Dudley, scaring him away to hide behind Aunt Petunia. The giant turns his eyes to Harry and greets him, saying he hasn’t seen him since he was a baby. He says Harry looks like his father but has his mother’s eyes. Uncle Vernon tells him to leave but the giant merely grabs the gun, ties into a knot and throws it away. The giant presents Harry with a birthday cake. Harry asks the giant who he is and he says he is Rubeus Hagrid, the Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. [“Accio Hagrid” by Harry and the Potters] Hagrid makes a fire and cooks some sausages, but is shocked that Harry knows nothing about Hogwarts. He gets angry at the Dursleys for not telling him anything about his parents’ world, his world. Harry has no idea what’s going on. Hagrid tells Harry his parents are famous and that he’s a wizard, despite Uncle Vernon forbidding him to. [“Where I Belong” by Kwikspell] Hagrid gives Harry the letter that he has been craving for. [“I Am a Wizard” by Harry and the Potters] It tells him that he has been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and that term begins on 1st September. [“Harry the Wizard” by Sam]

Hagrid takes out parchment and a quill and writes a letter to Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, explaining he has given Harry the letter. Uncle Vernon tells Hagrid that Harry won’t be going, but the giant knows that a great Muggle like him wouldn’t be able to stop Harry from going to Hogwarts. [“Muggles” by Jonathan Mann] Uncle Vernon reveals he knew that Harry’s a wizard, and Aunt Petunia tells Harry that her sister, Harry’s mother, was a witch. [“I Wanna Be A Muggle” by Mudblud] Petunia said they were killed by another wizard and Harry screams that Petunia said they got killed in a car crash. Hagrid is as outraged as Harry is that the Dursleys have lied that much. He sits down and tells Harry that a Dark Wizard named Lord Voldemort killed Harry’s parents and tried to kill Harry too. [“Voldemort, Peace Off by The Basilisk in Your Pasta] But the spell he used backfired, only leaving Harry his scar. Hagrid tells him that he brought Harry from the ruins of the house and brought him to the Dursleys’ house on 4 Privet Drive. Uncle Vernon says it’s a load of rubbish and tries to persuade Harry that whatever happened to his parents was deserved anyway, but Hagrid pulls an umbrella out of his coat and threatens Uncle Vernon. [One Last Goodbye by Let’s Lumos] Harry asks what happened to Voldemort and Hagrid tells him he vanished and hasn’t been seen since.

Harry doubts that he is a wizard until Hagrid asks him if he ever made anything happen he couldn’t explain when he was angry or scared. Uncle Vernon makes the mistake of mocking Dumbledore [“Free Tuition” by The Bandon Banshees] and Hagrid swishes the umbrella, in Dudley’s direction, and Dudley sprouts a curly pig’s tail. [“Accio Hagrid [reprise]” by Harry and the Potters] Hagrid asks Harry not to mention it at Hogwarts because Hagrid isn’t allowed to do magic, as he had been expelled. Hagrid takes off his coat and Harry sleeps under that for the night, for the day ahead. [“Yer a Wizard by Tonks and the Aurors]