History ReferencedBy / HarryPotter

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' 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 Creator/DavidTennant aka Barty Crouch Jr.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': 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.

* In ''Film/JoyRide2023'', Deadeye comes up with fake names for the girls - Hermione, Ron and Harry. Lolo claims Hagrid.

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** In "WesternAnimation/{{Wishology}}: The Big Beginning", Timmy wishes to star in his own movie trilogy. He starts off in parodies of ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' and ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', before being put into a parody of ''Harry Potter''. In it, Timmy is dressed as Harry and flying on a broomstick while playing Quidditch, with Poof acting as the Golden Snitch.

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

** A.K. Yearling, the author of the ''Daring Do'' novels (and revealed in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E4DaringDont Daring Don't]]" to actually ''be'' [[RealAfterAll Daring Do]] writing autobiographies), is a parody of J.K. Rowling, down to her name.

** In the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd "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.)
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E8AHearthsWarmingTail Hearth's Warming Tail]]: A pony version of Severus Snape appears as a Snowfall Frost's teacher.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Several episodes feature young sorcerer Nigel Planter and his adventures at Toadblatt's School of Sorcery.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids'': In "Bad Lot-Tenant", the kids roleplay the in-universe book series ''Moxie & Magic'', which is essentially ''Harry Potter'' with gangsters in TheRoaringTwenties.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':

-->'''[[CloudCuckoolander Mabel]]:''' Are you gonna tell us we're finally old enough to go to wizard school? Is there an owl in this bag?!\\
'''[[spoiler: Ford]]''': [[DeadpanSnarker I assure you if there was an owl in this bag]] [[BlackComedyBurst it would be long dead.]]

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* Creator/AlanMoore really, really hates Harry Potter. His ''ComicBook/TopTen'' spin-off fantasy mini-series ''ComicBook/{{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). ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: 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 TheAntichrist, and finally getting killed by Literature/MaryPoppins.
* In the ''ComicBook/ChickTract'' "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 [[BookBurning burn them all]] along with the occultic stuff.

* ''ComicBook/Superboy2011'': 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 ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger so the two of them can banish him back to "Hogwarts or wherever".

* In "Kickin' It Old School" from ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' #16, one of the boarding schools Cuthbert visits is a blatant Hogwarts parody, right down to it being on the planet Rowling VI.

* The 2004 screwball-comedy, ''Fantasia'', have the main character, an amateur magician Harmy Bobo, being a blatant GenderFlipped 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!

* Peter Grant in ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' frequently uses ''Harry Potter'' as an analogy, such as comparing the WizardingSchool 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 SnoopingLittleKid 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.)

* ''Literature/AnythingButTypical'': At the Storyboard convention, Jason sees a girl dressed like Hermione and about fifteen Harry Potters.

* ''Literature/ExperimentalFilm'': 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?"
* ''Literature/BecauseOfTheRabbit'': 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. [[spoiler:She actually has a dog named Baxter.]]
* In ''Literature/DogsDontTalk'', Ben remembers his showoff classmate Tamara carrying herself like Hermione Granger.
* In ''Literature/OneThirdNerd'', Liam is so good at tennis that he compares himself holding a racket to Harry Potter when Ollivander gave him a wand.
* Mickey from ''Literature/YouHaveAMatch'' has temporary Harry Potter tattoos on her right arm.
* In ''Literature/EveryShinyThing'', 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.
* ''Literature/CanYouSeeMe'': 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 ''Literature/TheBoyWhoDrewMonsters'', Nick tries to draw monsters like Jack Peter. One of his drawings is of floating Dementors.
* Jeremey from ''Literature/TheRoosevelt'' compares his depression to having a crowd of Dementors living inside his head.
* In ''Literature/CountingToD'', 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.
* ''Literature/MaximumRide'': 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 ''Literature/EvenIfWeBreak'', Liva compliments Ever's work setting up the cabin for the game by saying, "Yer a wizard, Ev."
* In the first ''Literature/{{Thora}}'' book, Thora picks up a ''Harry Potter'' book and asks if it's about the hairy potter she knew in South Africa.
* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': 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.
* In ''Literature/TheOtherBoy'', 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."
* In ''Literature/BeautifulMusicForUglyChildren'', Gabe and Paige remember having ''Harry Potter'' marathons when they were kids. Paige could read all seven books in seventy-two hours.

* ''Series/{{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.
* ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'': Ruff's old obedience school is named "Dogwarts".

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
** Lance Hunter explicitly compares most of [[spoiler: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.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** 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".
* Creepy Connie from ''Series/{{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 the first episode of ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'' [[Recap/FateTheWinxSagaS1E1ToTheWatersAndTheWild 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.

* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': 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".
* ''Series/InTreatment'': 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.

* The pre-chorus in "Daydream" by J-Hope (of Music/{{BTS}}) has the line "Like the hole [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice]] fell into/Like the road that leads to Hogwarts".

* Harry makes a cameo throwing a patronus in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnQGP67Xd0 this song]] of ''WebVideo/DestripandoLaHistoria'' while Odin seeks magical knowledge.

* LetsPlay/{{Sips}} has a RunningGag where he completely fails to understand what the series is about, and LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} pretends to fill him in by talking about ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' instead.

* At the start of the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' series ''[[WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries Magic Police]]'', LetsPlay/DuncanJones and LetsPlay/{{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.
* During LetsPlay/PewDiePie's ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'' video, he gives himself a point and declares "ten points to Gryffindor, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]"
* In the ''WebVideo/DubbedByStrangers'' video "Yelling about the Mr. Men Characters", the transition theme for Little Miss Magic is the ''Harry Potter'' theme.
* The first episode of the second season of ''WebVideo/SandersSides'', "Fitting In", is about sorting the titular sides into Hogwarts houses. In the end, the newly accepted Anxiety ends up [[spoiler:not picking a house, being the only side to do so]].
* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' makes a passing reference to the series in "The Last Mabelcorn":
-->'''[[CloudCuckoolander Mabel]]:''' Are you gonna tell us we're finally old enough to go to wizard school? Is there an owl in this bag?!\\
'''[[spoiler: Ford]]''': [[DeadpanSnarker I assure you if there was an owl in this bag]] [[BlackComedyBurst it would be long dead.]]
* There is an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{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 ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'', Carmen is a fan of ''The Hairy Games'', which mashes up ''Harry Potter'' with ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. It's about a girl named Katimone Everquest who goes to a WizardingSchool 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 ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'' 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 ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd "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.)
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E8AHearthsWarmingTail Hearth's Warming Tail]]: A pony version of Severus Snape appears as a Snowfall Frost's teacher.

* ''Fanfic/Homecoming2026'': Skyball is conceptually a renamed version of the franchise's game of Quidditch

* In ''Literature/TheAmyVirus'', Mr. Shunsberg's wife named their son Harry because she's a huge ''Harry Potter'' fan.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'' episode "[[Recap/WhatIfS1E5WhatIfZombies 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.

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-->'''Krabappel:''' Harry Potter, are you chewing gum?\\

** In "The Bob Next Door", Sideshow Bob describes his latest plan to kill Bart as "the greatest murder since Snape killed Dumbledore."
--->'''Bart:''' Aw, I haven't gotten to that part yet!\\
'''Bob:''' It's a four-year-old book.\\
'''Bart:''' I'm a slow reader.

* ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'': Ruff's old obedience school is named "Dogwarts". A ShoutOut to Hogwarts.

** In "The Birthday Synchronicity", Amy has herself and Sheldon dress up in Hogwarts robes for their KinkyRoleplay.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In one episode Leonard reads the last book, and Sheldon and even Penny spoil several plot points for him.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3470 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.\\