History Theatre / AVeryPotterMusical

--->[[spoiler:'''Cedric''': You could say your mother and I FOUND each other.]]

* GainingConfidenceSong: Hermione's solo "The Coolest Girl" is about her status as a CoolLoser, starting with her softly singing about her isolation from her peers and ending with her belting that she doesn't care; ''she'' knows she's awesome.

* CreatorInJoke: The concept of Pigfarts started as a random RunningGag Nick Lang came up with when talking about Harry Potter with his friends, with Pigfarts as the name of a hypothetical [[TheMockbuster knockoff cash-in series]] playing [[invoked]]FollowTheLeader with Harry Potter.

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** Sinister Severus Snape draws the line when Umbridge replaces the [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Zefron]] poster with one of [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Taylor Lautner]].

** "Let's get rid of [[Literature/{{Twilight}} that piece of trash]]!"

* FiveManBand: The major characters who resist Voldemort by the end of the play are Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny, who all have a part in the song "Not Alone." It fits with the norms of TwoGirlsToATeam and the characters fit the archetypes of TheLeader, TheLancer, TheSmartGuy, TheBigGuy, and TheChick.

* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: Draco, one of the few characters that actually had a British accent, makes character vow to fold his knickers. Although knickers means pants in the US, in Britian it's used to refer to [[WholesomeCrossdresser ladies underwear]].

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler:Pigfarts exists as Malfoy said and has been a closely-guarded secret for hundreds of years.]]

* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Ginny wishes to do this with the Invisibility Cloak.

* ChicAndDie: The song "Granger Danger" begins with Ron talking about how ugly Hermione is, only for her to walk into the room mid-sentence and stun the room with how SheCleansUpNicely. This song was actually the inspiration for the entire play.

** Voldemort (Archie), Bellatrix (Veronica), and Quirrell (Betty--JustFriends though… [[HoYay maybe]]).

* {{Bowdlerization}}: The original version of the musical posted to [=YouTube=] (titled ''H.P. the Musical'') contained even ''more'' raunchy jokes than the current version, which were cut to discourage Warner Bros from potentially suing the theater company. Of course, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the original can still be found online]]. It includes such gems as:

* CastingGag: The casting had some gag moments for people in the [=UMich=] theatre department, notably that Creator/LaurenLopez had previously played a "little British boy" in the Langs' parody of Film/TheLordOfTheRings. There's also the fact that Nick Lang met Jaime Lyn Beatty because Creator/DarrenCriss had done a dramatic one-man show with Jaime playing TheLostLenore who only appeared in the form of photos of their past relationship, which made casting Jaime as Darren's love interest (Ginny) but having her be TheWoobie and him be InnocentlyInsensitive this time HilariousInHindsight.

* CreatorInJoke: The concept of Pigfarts started as a random RunningGag Nick Lang came up with when talking about Harry Potter with his friends, with Pigfarts as the name of a hypothetical [[TheMockbuster knockoff cash-in series]] playing FollowTheLeader with Harry Potter.

** A number of in-jokes specific to the actors scattered throughout the show, like Devin Lytle always being cast as a SouthernBelle, or Harry and Ron's [[HeterosexualLifePartners bromance]] thanks to Creator/DarrenCriss and Joey Richter being real-life roommates. (Or, for that matter, Hermione's sexual preference being "Waiting Until Marriage" in the sequel, with Bonnie Gruesen being a devout Catholic in real life.) On a meta level, this is responsible for much of the HumorDissonance on the original Website/YouTube recording, especially in the opening number -- this was originally a college production where much of the humor just came from the audience seeing people they knew dressed up as Harry Potter characters.
** The RunningGag of Cedric bringing up that Hufflepuff House is good at "[=FINDing=]" things is from an in-joke about Jim Povolo's superhero alter ego being "Findor", whose [[MundaneUtility surprisingly useful superpower]] was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the ability to locate lost objects]]. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] Hufflepuff House specializing in "Finding" was going to be an actual fleshed out joke about HeartIsAnAwesomePower but there was no time to flesh it out beyond just being Cedric's CatchPhrase.

** When Snape gives Dumbledore the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment bomb sandwich]].

** The EpicRocking song of "Gotta Get Back to Hogwarts," which brilliantly sets up the AlternateCharacterInterpretation, humor, and some plots. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning to Hogwarts, Harry meets Ginny who instantly falls for him but he's interested in Cho, who is dating Cedric. Malfoy arrives and teases them and reveals his motive of finally beating Harry. The gang all gather and ride the Hoqwarts express to Hogwarts where they are greeted by Dumbledore. And all in all there's a general agreement that this year's going to be [[CatchPhrase totally awesome]]. And this is all just the opening number.

* OriginalCastPrecedent: Sometimes played straight (Lupin's mustache and Lucius' long blond hair, for instance, are carried over from [[Film/HarryPotter the films]]) and sometimes subverted (Neville is blond, as the book character is according to WordOfGod, rather than dark-haired like in the movies).

* ProductPlacement: Parodied, with Ron and Harry's obsession with Red Vines, complete with TagLine -- "Red Vines, what CAN'T they do?" Hilariously, this was [[{{Defictionalization}} Defictionalized]] in the wake of the show's success, with Red Vines actually hiring Joey Richter and Creator/JoeWalker to do a series of promo videos [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXDP3gOgiZY with exactly that tag line]].

* SexinessScore: PlayedForLaughs when Draco Malfoy is singing about [[HotLibrarian Hermione Granger]] while mocking the HollywoodHomely trope that's applied to her [[Franchise/HarryPotter in canon]].

* ThrowItIn: The famous line from Lavender Brown "Bitch, I ain't Cho Chang!" was embellished by Sango Tajima -- in the script Lavender simply politely says "I'm not Cho Chang" -- and, according to pretty much everyone who's seen it, makes the whole scene (and rescues it from a lot of racist undertones by having the actual Asian onstage defy stereotypes so strongly).

* AffectionateParody: WordOfGod says that Hermione's song "The Coolest Girl" is supposed to be a send up to female power ballads that every girl uses as an audition song à la [[Theatre/LesMiserables "On My Own"]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 "Part of Your World"]].

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: When Rita Skeeter finds him in his underwear and covered in deer blood, next to a freshly eviscerated deer, Lupin claims that it's a Gryffindor Quidditch tradition. He then [[CrossesTheLineTwice forces a crying Neville to eat some of it]] to reinforce this. Later he claims a jaguar is what caused all the damage the werewolf did… including messing up his office.

* ProductPlacement: Parodied with "[[TheRedStapler Red Vines]]: What the hell can't they do?"

** Ron can't remember the last time he found a Bertie Bott's bean that was actually candy-flavored, possibly a TakeThat toward the beans' {{Defictionalization}}; when they first came out, there were regular Jelly Belly flavors in the mix, but those were eventually phased out.

* TheCameo / PromotedFanboy: Longtime fan Creator/EvannaLynch playing Luna Lovegood.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Diary!Voldemort's over-the-top ([[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments and hilarious]]) death]]

** ''{{Series/VRTroopers}}'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''{{Series/Beetleborgs}}'' of all things get an analogy.

* ThrowItIn: The famous line from Lavender Brown "Bitch, I ain't Cho Chang!" was embellished by Sango Tajima -- in the script Lavender simply politely says "I'm not Cho Chang" -- and, according to pretty much everyone who's seen it, makes the whole scene (and rescues it from a lot of racist UnfortunateImplications by having the actual Asian onstage defy stereotypes so strongly).

* MeadowRun: A couple happily reunites in a slow-motion runs towards each other at the very end of the second act. The members of the couple are [[spoiler:Quirrell and Voldemort]].

%%* VitriolicBestBuds: Voldemort and Quirrell are a mild version of type two

* {{Corpsing}}: Harry loses it--repeatedly--in the scene at Hagrid's shack. Also, the corpse of [[spoiler:Moaning Myrtle]] in the flashback, but this one is intentional and PlayedForLaughs.
** Hermione blinks a couple times while petrified.

* {{Corpsing}}: You can see Tyler Brunsman do this during "To Dance Again", a deliberate result of the show staging Cedric's death so his body would remain prominently visible through an entire showstopping dance number, complete with kick line.

* KnifeNut: Umbridge just carries a knife around under her dress and uses it to threaten students.

* TheLongList: Near the end of the play, the narrator rattles off a ''huge'' list of the characters accompanying Harry into the Chamber of Secrets. The list goes on forever, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters but still fails to mention every character present]].