Referenced By / Harry Potter

Timmy — yer a wisher.

As Harry Potter is an extremely popular and profitable franchise, it was bound to be permeated in pop culture.

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Anime & Manga

• Lucky Star: When Konata and Tsukasa discuss how data about how much the average Japanese person reads excludes manga and light novels, Konata brings up Harry Potter as an example of what people consider "normal" books.
• Mashle: Magic and Muscles is heavily inspired in the looks of its Wizarding School by the Potterverse, except with the Power Trio replaced with a Saitama-like protagonist with the Charles Atlas Superpower.

Asian Animation

• Happy Heroes: In Season 8 episode 5, where the Heroes are looking for a magician mentor, a magician holds up a picture of one of his former students, who he say is one of his most famous students — it's Harry Potter.

Comic Books

• Batgirl (2009): When Klarion the Witch Boy drags Steph to Limbo Town and she accidentally gets herself challenged to a duel, she shouts "accio fist" while punching her challenger, before realizing she should have said "accio face" and then getting run out of town for being non-magical.
• In the Chick Tract "The Nervous Witch", Samantha explains to her evangelical uncle that she and her friend Holly got into witchcraft through the Harry Potter books. The uncle advises her to burn them all along with the occultic stuff.
• The Trio make a cameo in Excalibur.
• In "Kickin' It Old School" from Futurama #16, one of the boarding schools Cuthbert visits is a blatant Hogwarts parody, right down to it being on the planet Rowling VI.
• Alan Moore really, really hates Harry Potter. His Top 10 spin-off fantasy mini-series Smax features a field trip from a wizard school being horribly killed by a dragon because of their teacher's recklessness (a reference to common fan criticisms of Hogwarts staff's casual attitude to dangerous creatures). The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century turns into an incredibly vitriolic denunciation of Potter as artistically and politically reactionary, with Harry massacring the entire rest of the Potter cast, turning out to be literally The Antichrist, and finally getting killed by Mary Poppins.
• My Little Pony: Friends Forever: In My Little Pony Friends Forever Issue 28:
  • Thestra's name refers to the Thestrals, skeletal horses series
  • There's also Harriet Pinto novels, where a unicorn filly with a star on her forehead and robes is a clear reference to the series.
• Superboy (2011): Kon decides that he'll be calling Tannarak, an evil sorcerer whose made it clear he's quite proud of his name, Voldemort and says he's going to free The Phantom Stranger so the two of them can banish him back to "Hogwarts or wherever".

Comic Strips

• Peanuts: In a November 1999 strip, Sally writes a fan letter to Harry Potter. After Charlie Brown tells her that Harry is a fictional character, she throws the paper away: "Some other time, Harry."
• One Stone Soup comic has Wally buying a Harry Potter LEGO set for Max as a Christmas gift, only for Joan to point out he's 2 and wouldn't know what Harry Potter is.

Fan Works

• Boldores And Boomsticks: Blake's Gastly confides to Ruby's Crobat that he feels that he was thrown into a life-changing situation that he doesn't understand and isn't sure if he can live up to the expectations others have for him. Crobat responds, "Yer a wizard, Gastly."
• Homecoming, 2026: Skyball is conceptually a renamed version of the franchise's game of Quidditch.
• Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Soma occasionally calls Dracula "the Dark Lord Who Was Not Voldemort".
• The Ultimate Evil: When Uncle decides he needs to mentor someone in chi magic, Valerie jokingly asks if it's going to be like Hogwarts wizard training. While the latter tries practicing her magical abilities in the sequel, she and Nat sarcastically mention the spells Wingardium Leviosa and Petrificus Totalus.

Film — Animated

• My Little Pony: A New Generation: A poster of "Harry Trotter" is shown at a cinema.
• In The LEGO Batman Movie, Voldemort is one of the inmates of the Phantom Zone. As an interesting side note, Ralph Fiennes, Voldemort's actor in the films, voices Alfred.
• SCOOB!: Upon their first meeting one Halloween night, Shaggy mistakes Velma's judge costume for Harry Potter.
  Velma: I'm Ruth Bader Ginsburg, obviously.
  Shaggy: Which house is she in? Hufflepuff?
  Velma: She's a Supreme Court Justice.
  Shaggy: (disappointed) Oh. Slytherin.

Film — Live-Action

• In Boyhood, the kids dress up for the book launch of Half-Blood Prince.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): A Gucci billboard showing Dobby as a model can be seen while Chip walks home from Monty's apartment.
• The 2004 screwball-comedy, Fantasia 2004, has the main character, an amateur magician Harmy Bobo, being a blatant Gender Flipped spoof of Harry Potter, right down to wearing a uniform similar to Hogwarts' attire. The movie itself even ripped off John Williams' Hogwarts theme in it's final scene!
• In Joy Ride (2023), Deadeye comes up with fake names for the girls — Hermione, Ron and Harry. Lolo claims Hagrid.
• In Snatched (2017), Emily compares Jeffrey's haircut to Harry Potter's. Jeffrey replies, "Harry Potter is the greatest of all the wizards. He's a hero and a great role model. So I'll take it as a compliment."

Literature

• Anything but Typical: At the Storyboard convention, Jason sees a girl dressed like Hermione and about fifteen Harry Potters.
• In The Amy Virus, Mr. Shunsberg's wife named their son Harry because she's a huge Harry Potter fan.
• In Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Gabe and Paige remember having Harry Potter marathons when they were kids. Paige could read all seven books in seventy-two hours.
• Because of the Rabbit: While playing Two Truths and a Lie, Ms. Hutton says that she has a cat named Sirius Black, from her son's favorite book series. She actually has a dog named Baxter.
• In The Boy Who Drew Monsters, Nick tries to draw monsters like Jack Peter. One of his drawings is of floating Dementors.
• Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: The 2008 Children’s Literature winner, referencing Joanne Rowling, Dumbledore, Hagrid, Harry Potter, Quidditch, and Quirrel + Voldemort:
  Joanne watched her fellow passengers – a wizened man reading about alchemy; an oversized bearded man-child; a haunted, bespectacled young man with a scar; and a gaggle of private school children who chatted ceaselessly about Latin and flying around the hockey pitch and the two-faced teacher who they thought was a witch – there was a story here, she decided. — Tim Ellis, Haslemere, U.K.
• Can You See Me?: Due to her need for predictability and control, Tally asks her parents before her birthday how many presents she'll be getting and whether it'll be more than last year. Nell complains that she's acting like Dudley Dursley.
• In Counting to D, Sam, who has dyslexia, slowly reads her way through the Harry Potter books to practice her reading. Her friend read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to her when she was in elementary school, so she can figure out most of the wizard names and magical terminology just by recognizing the first few letters instead of having to sound out the whole word.
• Discworld tends to avoid them, because it's going to get accused of ripping off Rowling whatever happens, but in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Diary there's a brief mention of Unseen University having an owl-based postal service. (This being Discworld, it was abandoned when they realised the owls were just using the letters as nesting material.)
• In Dogs Don't Talk, Ben remembers his showoff classmate Tamara carrying herself like Hermione Granger.
• The Dresden Files:
  • Dresden notes that he often gets calls from people who see his ad in the phone book and apparently just have to call just to ask if he's "really a wizard named Harry."
  • Peace Talks: Dresden makes a quip using the famous quote from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: "Yer a wizard, Harry."
• In Even If We Break, Liva compliments Ever's work setting up the cabin for the game by saying, "Yer a wizard, Ev."
• In Every Shiny Thing, Sierra's old friend Cassidy loves Sierra's new neighborhood because of all the stone, which reminds her of Harry Potter. She pretends to cast spells in the foyer.
• Experimental Film: When Safie unhelpfully refers to Lady Midday in a conversation about who fed Clark dirt, Simon snaps, "Holy Christ, what's she supposed to be, Lord Voldemort?"
• In Harmony (2016), Iris and Candy dub Camp Harmony's dining hall the Great Hall.
• Lyttle Lytton Contest: From 2017:
  Dudley was a magician (not a wizard like in those Harry Potter books, and also he didn’t have a wand like in them), who was poor.
  — Shaked Koplewitz
• Maximum Ride: In Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, Max compares herself and the Flock running from Itex to Harry Potter running from the Dursleys, "except in our world, Dursleys were everywhere, were heavily funded, and had a strong scientific bent."
• In One-Third Nerd, Liam is so good at tennis that he compares himself holding a racket to Harry Potter when Ollivander gave him a wand.
• In The Other Boy, Alejandra tries to cheer Shane up by texting him a Harry Potter quote: "It is our choices, Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
• Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: To the game of Quidditch from the first story, explaining how Princess Bianca got her broom locked away:

  there was an incident a couple of weeks ago involving some silly game with enchanted, weighted balls, and a fellow princess got sent to the infirmary with a concussion, so the broom's currently locked in a closet in the teachers' lounge.

• Real Mermaids:
  • Mers can communicate with each other on a frequency too high for humans to hear, which Cori calls "mermaid Parseltongue."
  • In Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells, Jade and Cori are stuck in a van between two boys waving their lollipops around like wands and yelling Harry Potter spells.
• Reign of the Seven Spellblades author Bokuto Uno has cited Harry Potter as a major influence on the series. The series is set in a Wizarding School in a castle in a Constructed World's Fantasy Counterpart Culture to England, the Sword Roses are Decomposite Characters of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and many of the teachers are heavily based on various Hogwarts instructors.
• Peter Grant in Rivers of London frequently uses Harry Potter as an analogy, such as comparing the Wizarding School his boss attended to Hogwarts, or calling a game where the players use magic to chuck tennis balls at each other "Pocket Quidditch". Whispers Underground opens with Snooping Little Kid Abigail looking for the Hogwarts Express. (That is, she's quick to explain, the train they used in the films. Not the actual Hogwarts Express, because it doesn't exist.)
• Jeremey from The Roosevelt compares his depression to having a crowd of Dementors living inside his head.
• Rules: When Catherine was seven, her mom started reading the Harry Potter books to her. Even though she's old enough to read by herself, her mom still reads every new book aloud.
• Tempest (2011): In Tempest Unleashed, Tempest remembers watching the Harry Potter movies with Mark, one of her love interests. He didn't laugh when she cried at least twice at each of them.
• There's More Than One Way Home:
  • Jack's bedtime routine involves being read five pages of Harry Potter. He's on Prisoner of Azkaban at the time the book takes place.
  • When Anna learns that Tyler's autopsy found no cause of death, she sarcastically wonders if he's been killed by the Avada Kedavra curse.
  • The children's party entertainer Science Matt says that he can pretend to be Professor Dumbledore, too.
• In the first Thora book, Thora picks up a Harry Potter book and asks if it's about the hairy potter she knew in South Africa.
• Mickey from You Have a Match has temporary Harry Potter tattoos on her right arm.
• In You Look Different in Real Life, the five teenagers are asked what they would tell their six-year-old selves if they could. Rory says, "I would tell her what happens in the later Harry Potter books."

Live-Action TV

• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
  • Lance Hunter explicitly compares most of the so-called "Real SHIELD" to Hufflepuff as a way of insulting them.
  • A season one episode has Skye refer to the SHIELD academy as "SHIELD Hogwarts."
  • In the pilot, a beleaguered Simmons says that she isn't Hermione.
• The Big Bang Theory:
  • In one episode Leonard reads the sixth book, and Sheldon and Penny spoil several plot points for him.
  • In "The Birthday Synchronicity", Amy has herself and Sheldon dress up in Hogwarts robes for their Kinky Roleplay.
  • After Howard performs a magic trick, Raj exclaims "I'm telling you dude, there's a seat on the Hogwarts Express with your name on it!". After another one Sheldon accuses him of using a trick pack of cards and Howard says "Believe in magic, you Muggle!"
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Dawn quips "I'm not going to Hogwarts" in "Real Me".
  • Willow tells Giles "You go all Dumbledore on me." in "Lessons".
  • Andrew mentions Voldemort in "Bring On the Night".
• In the Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code" the Doctor mentions having cried reading the last book. The episode aired before Deathly Hallows was published. Additionally, Martha banishes the episode's villains with a spell ending "Expelliarmus!". For bonus points, the episode was part of the Tenth Doctor era, who was played by David Tennant aka Barty Crouch Jr (whose last appearance in the book was in a chapter titled "The Parting of the Ways".
• Eretz Nehederet had a skit parodying the recent controversy over college presidents failing to address antisemitism, where Dumbledore interrogates Professors McGonagall, Sprout, and Snape about whether calling for "mudblood genocide" violates Hogwarts's code of conduct.
• In the first episode of Fate: The Winx Saga To the Waters and the Wild", Aisha accuses Bloom of never having read Harry Potter but Bloom tells her that she spends hours taking online sorting hat quizzes.
  Aisha: Ravenclaw?
  Bloom: Sometimes Slytherin yeah.
  Aisha: That explains the lies then.
  Bloom: Let me guess Gryffindor, that explains the judgment.
• FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman: Ruff's old obedience school is named "Dogwarts".
• The Flash (2014):
  • Hartley Rathaway swears "Holy Harry Potter" when he sees a Time Wraith that looks like a dementor.
  • Cisco Ramon is a fan who made a wand for a convention. At one point he shouts Expecto Patronum.
• Good Luck Charlie: At the beginning of season 3, Amy is pregnant with her fifth child. When Bob is trying to find a room for the baby, his first idea is underneath the stairs, to which Amy responds "Like Harry Potter".
• In Treatment: In a first season episode, Sophie reads her diary to Paul. She said she wrote the diary as if she was writing a letter to Hermione Granger, and is shocked when Paul doesn't know who that is, even though his children have read all of the novels.
• Creepy Connie from Jessie is a "Harry Potter" fan. In "Creepie Connie Comes a Callin'", she wants to go with Luke to a Harry Potter-themed party and is distraught when she finds out Luke (possibly) never saw the films or read a book from the series. In a later episode, she mentions that she wants to name her and Luke's child Hermione if it's a girl.
• In Lucifer (2016), Lucifer and Chloe investigate the murder of prominent restaurateur who was a father figure to his staff.
  Lucifer: Well, my dear detective, this is patricide. It's a tale as old as time. You know, Oedipus, the Menendez brothers, Voldemort!
• Supernatural had one episode where a female was being used as bait. She was nervous until encouraged to think of her favorite heroes. She picked Hermione and listed several facts about her before being told to focus.
• Veronica Mars: In the second season episode "My Mother the Fiend", Vice-Principal Clemons busts Veronica for having a key to his office so she can sneak into it, and as punishment, he has her alphabetize the file cabinet in the basement (though this turns out to be a Batman Gambit so he can have the principal ousted), and when he tells her this, Veronica quips, "And I can't use magic, right?"

Music

• The pre-chorus in "Daydream" by J-Hope (of BTS) has the line "Like the hole Alice fell into/Like the road that leads to Hogwarts".
• Kim Junsu/XIA of JYJ has a song and album titled Tarantallegra, after the Harry Potter spell that forces people to "dance".
• TXT has the song "9 and 3 quarters (Run Away)", which (coming from the EP The Dream Chapter: Magic) references the train to Hogwarts as an escape.

Professional Wrestling

• The second of CHIKARA's 2016 Aniversario events, held May 28, 2016, was titled Aniversario: The Chamber of Secrets.

Puppet Shows

• One episode of Sesame Street has Gordon and Telly reading Furry Potter and the Goblet of Fur. Another has Cookie Monster star in Furry Potter and the Goblet of Cookies.

Tabletop Games

• Cards Against Humanity has at least three cards relating to the franchise. The first is "Next from JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber Of _____", while another is "Daniel Radcliffe's delicious arsehole" and a third is about "Harry Potter Erotica".

Video Games

• Animal Restaurant: Messenger Hedwig is a female snowy owl who delivers mail, like Hedwig from Harry Potter.
• Deponia Doomsday: Rufus calls Angus McChronicle as "Dumbledolt" once.
• In the mobile game Homescapes (a spin-off of Gardenscapes), Austin mentions that he likes the book about the boy with the scar, implied to be "Harry Potter". This is confirmed when Austin's family find a secret room behind the library and compare it to the book in question.

Visual Novels

• Emma Magorobi, the Ultimate Actress from Super Danganronpa Another 2, is most known In-Universe for playing a character from the "Harry Peter" series. Her first name, Emma, references Emma Watson, who played Hermione.

Webcomics

• After Ensign Sue gets the Red Shirt treatment in Ensign Sue Must Die, God Sue sends her to the Harry Potter universe. Later, Kirk, Bones, and the Doctor end up there and convince Ensign Sue to come back to the Star Trek universe for part of their plan to keep the other Sues from destroying reality. Still later, a brainwashed Harry is part of the Sue Army.
  Harry: [as Sue flies away on her unicorn] She was the only girl I loved...

Web Video

• 7-Second Riddles: There was one riddle focusing on a young boy at a magical school. Of course, his name was Harry.
• Jane Eyre from The Autobiography of Jane Eyre owns several copies of Harry Potter. One is a complete set and she also has several separate books.
• Harry makes a cameo throwing a patronus in this song of Destripando La Historia while Odin seeks magical knowledge.
• In the Dubbed By Strangers video "Yelling about the Mr. Men Characters", the transition theme for Little Miss Magic is the Harry Potter theme.
• During PewDiePie's Cards Against Humanity video, he gives himself a point and declares "ten points to Gryffindor, bitch!"
• In an episode of Rooster Teeth Shorts, it turns out that Joel was only halfway through on the book series before Matt spoiled it for him.
• The first episode of the second season of Sanders Sides, "Fitting In", is about sorting the titular sides into Hogwarts houses. In the end, the newly accepted Anxiety ends up not picking a house, being the only side to do so.
• Sips has a Running Gag where he completely fails to understand what the series is about, and Sjin pretends to fill him in by talking about The Lord of the Rings instead.
• Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Spells n Wiztards is a parody of the Harry Potter series where a magic rock turns SMG4 into a wizard and gets sent to Hobowarts. Rubeus Hagrid has appeared in other videos as a cameo.
• During The YoGPoD, when doing a musical quiz using iTunes and the "shuffle" feature, many of Lewis Brindley's answers are tracks from the audiobooks, causing Simon Lane to ask incredulously if he actually has any music on his computer.
• Yogscast Minecraft Series: At the start of Magic Police, Duncan Jones and Sjin start discussing the series, only for one of the duo to mistake the spell "crucio" for "crucify", which causes them to remark that the series would have taken a darker turn if that had been the case.

Web Original

• SCP Foundation:
  • Things Doctor Bright Is Not Allowed To Do At The Foundation:
    92. Doctor Bright is not allowed to give SCP-239 a copy of any Harry Potter books.
  • SCP-423 is an entity who exists within textual narratives and can travel between them. In one experiment log, it got into Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince appearing as just another wizard.
  • SCP-914 is a large device made up of various clockwork materials that will "refine" any object that is placed inside inside of it. The "quality" of the refining is dictated by a knob that has the words Rough and Coarse (degrading the object to its base material) on one side, and Fine and Very Fine (amplifying or upgrading the object) on another, with 1:1 (Equivalent Exchange) in the middle. In one experiment log, a researcher put copies of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. On rough the output was a large pile of shredded and burnt paper. On coarse, all pages of the book got ripped out. On 1:1, it got translated into Spanish. And on very fine, a living paper phoenix came out.
  • SCP-1459 is a machine with a main chamber and some controls, when activated it produces a puppy in the chamber and asks for a method of death. In one experiment log, it was simply told "Bad fanfiction", and multiple puppies got dispensed wearing Hogwarts uniforms, the machine ran mulitple nonsensical Harry Potter themed skits with them, and in the end all of them got burn to death by a flamethrower.
  • SCP-3470 is predatory organism that resembles a Ford Anglia, sometimes a hand reaches out of its window with eyes on it. In one investigation log, the D-classes compares this SCP to the flying car from the franchise.
    D-13: Hey. This is the car from Harry Potter, right? Over.
    D-01: Holy crap, you're right. Hey. Command. Uh, so I know you guys are tight asses, but come on. Voldemort isn't gonna defeat himself, you know.
  • SCP-4028 is a metafictional entity taking the form of Alonso Quijano in some copies of Don Quixote, if it gets close to other books, it can alter the plots of the books in a way that Alonso Quijano appears in them. In one example, it got into Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone where Alonso Quijano kills Rubeus Hagrid, and explains to Harry Potter that all giants and sorcerers work for the Devil.

Western Animation

• American Dad!:
  • In "Iced, Iced Babies", when Roger becomes a professor at Hayley's college and she objects to his teaching methods, he tries to give her detention, but when she says that colleges don't have detention, he says that he's taking away 50 points from Gryffindor.
  • In "Dope & Faith", Roger convinces Steve that Hogwarts is real and drops him off at a drug lab. Steve, believing him, later brings some of their product home with him thinking that it's potion ingredients, so Roger convinces him that the drug makers are Death Eaters when they come to take their drugs back.
• Amphibia: In "The New Normal", as King Andrias sends a robot assassin to the human world to destroy Anne, and also tells it to also bring back the next Cynthia Coven book, saying that Marcy got him hooked on the series.
• In Animaniacs (2020), the Warner Kids see the new movie lot, where they see Harry and push him over.
• In Arthur, Prunella is a fan of the Henry Skreever series, about a young wizard boy. It has books, movies, and characters like Persephone and Lord Moldywart.
• Cyberchase: Recurring character Shari Spotter is from a world that's an Affectionate Parody of the books. She's a young, bespectacled witch who attends a school called Frogsnorts, and she's mentioned to have a professor named Stumblesnore. There is even an episode called "Shari Spotter and the Cosmic Crumpets", which uses the same Character Name and the Noun Phrase structure as every Potter book.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • In "Truth or Cosmoquences", an owl wearing a Gryffindor scarf delivers invitations to Cosmo and Wanda, and he receives a mouse as a tip.
  • In "The Fairy Beginning", Cosmo tells of when he lived with his mean Uncle Harry and Aunt Potter.
  • In "Wishology: The Big Beginning", Timmy wishes to star in his own movie trilogy. He starts off in parodies of The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings, before being put into a parody of Harry Potter. In it, Timmy is dressed as Harry and flying on a broomstick called the Timbus 2000 while playing Quidditch, with Poof acting as the Golden Snitch.
• Family Guy:
  • In "Back to the Pilot", Brian and Stewie travel back in time to relive the events of the pilot episode from 1999. Brian recklessly exploits his foreknowledge of the future in various ways, including giving his past self the idea for Harry Potter so he can take credit for it (an anachronism as the first book was published in 1997).
  • "Livin' on a Prayer": Peter dresses up like Harry Potter to go on a heist as he finds ski-masks uncomfortable.
  • "Brokeback Swanson": For a cutaway gag, Peter describes himself as a perpetual misfit, an example being when he went to Hogwarts and the house the Sorting Hat put him in was "housing for registered sex offenders".
  • "The Birthday Bootlegger": Peter suggests that Rowling's controversial views on transgenderism have retrospectively made the books problematic, and a cutaway shows the Sorting Hat compulsively shouting transphobic slurs.
  • "Adoptation": The Griffins watch "Harry Potter and the phonecall of awkwardness", where Harry uses all kinds of series-specific Sexual Euphemisms to warn Hermione he might have given her an STD.
• Gravity Falls makes a passing reference to the series in "The Last Mabelcorn":
  Mabel: Are you gonna tell us we're finally old enough to go to wizard school? Is there an owl in this bag?!
  Ford: I assure you if there was an owl in this bag it would be long dead.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Several episodes feature young sorcerer Nigel Planter and his adventures at Toadblatt's School of Sorcery.
• Harvey Street Kids: In "Bad Lot-Tenant", the kids roleplay the in-universe book series Moxie & Magic, which is essentially Harry Potter with gangsters in The Roaring '20s.
• There is an episode of Kaeloo called "Let's Play Happy Rotter" where Kaeloo and her friends role-play as the characters from a book series called "Happy Rotter", a reference to Harry Potter. The in-universe book series is about Happy Rotter, whose parents were killed when he was a baby by the evil wizard Voldemob.
• In Let's Go Luna!, Carmen is a fan of The Hairy Games, which mashes up Harry Potter with The Hunger Games. It's about a girl named Katimone Everquest who goes to a Wizarding School and wields a magic hairbrush. The students of the school are sorted into "Districts". Katimone is an obvious parody of both Hermione and Katniss Everdeen. Apart from books, the franchise also has movies.
• In the Molly of Denali episode "Book of Mammoths", Travis Hightower has a book called "Best Beasts Ever! And Where to Find Them", which is a parody of the Harry Potter spinoff book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • A. K. Yearling, the author of the Daring Do novels (and revealed in "Daring Don't" to actually be Daring Do writing autobiographies), is a parody of J. K. Rowling, down to her name.
  • In the episode "Three's a Crowd", Discord changes things so that himself, Cadance, and Twilight are dressed in Hogwarts uniforms, complete with Twilight in glasses. (And for what it's worth, going by house color, Twilight is in Gryffindor, Cadance is in Ravenclaw, and Discord, naturally, is in Slytherin.)
  • "Hearth's Warming Tail": A pony version of Severus Snape appears as a Snowfall Frost's teacher.
• The Owl House: Grudgby takes some cues from Quidditch, with the teams automatically winning if they catch the Rusty Smidge, to which Luz lampshades how unevenly balanced it is.
• The Simpsons:
  • The third act of "Treehouse of Horror XII" is "Wiz Kids", where Bart and Lisa are mages who attend Springwarts School of Magicry and battle the evil Lord Montymort. Harry also incidentally appears as one of their classmates:
    Krabappel: Harry Potter, are you chewing gum?
    Harry: No, Ma'am. It's brimstone. [breathes a fireball]
  • In "Trilogy of Error", Ned Flanders reads a book to Rod and Todd and says that Harry and his friends "went straight to Hell for practicing witchcraft" before throwing the book in the fireplace, a reference to the books' controversy in Christian circles.
  • In "The Regina Monologues", while the family visits England, Lisa meets J. K. Rowling and compliments her on getting an entire generation of children into reading.
  • In "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", Marge criticizes Ned's Bible films as being too gory while also glancing over the Bible's sweeter moments. Ned sarcastically asks if she'd rather see films about "a liberal European wizard school".
  • The sub-plot for "The Haw-Hawed Couple" has Homer and Lisa reading an Angelica Button book; Homer reads ahead and is devastated by the death of Dumbledore's counterpart.
    • The episode "Smoke on the Daughter" opens with the family attending the launch of the final Angelica Button book. Lisa argues with Comic Book Guy over whether the costumes refer to the books or the films.
  • In "The Bob Next Door", Sideshow Bob describes his latest plan to kill Bart as "the greatest murder since Snape killed Dumbledore".
  • In "Love is a Many-Splintered Thing", Homer and Bart watch a Reference Overdosed British film for romantic advice, which includes Snape (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) saying "Love is more powerful than all my magic".
  • In the episode "The Great Phatsby", where Burns is betrayed by a singer, at one point he makes this comment in a song: "You're Hufflepuff, I'm Slytherin."
• In the What If... episode "What If... Zombies?!", as the team is escaping the bunker at Camp Lehigh through a hole in the roof, Scott Lang's severed head shouts out "Wingardiam Leviosa!" as the Cloak of Levitation carries him out.
• In the Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum episode "I Am Marie Owens", a Hogwarts uniform can be seen among the various costumes in the museum play area.

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