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Puffs the Play

  • In first year, we see the trio of Wayne, Oliver, and Megan encounter the Mirror of Rorrimdriew ("weird mirror" backwards, a play off the Mirror of Erised). Wayne sees himself having saved the wizarding world, holding a lightsaber; Oliver seems himself having figured out insanely complicated theories of mathematics. Megan's vision? She sees herself reuniting with her imprisoned mother.
  • After Wayne's Uncle Dave passes away between third and fourth year, he confides in his friends how little he actually knew the closest thing he had to a parental figure and how he doesn't want to die unremembered. After a string of laughs in the show, the tone suddenly turns very tender as Megan and Oliver reaffirm that they'll be there for Wayne that year.
  • Cedric and Wayne's mentor/mentee relationship in fourth year is really sweet. Wayne helps Cedric with the Triwizard tasks, and Cedric gives Wayne great advice about failure just being another form of practice. Plus, he promises to teach Wayne everything he knows after the third task. Too bad it doesn't work out.
  • Megan and Oliver's incredibly awkward date at the school dance is pretty adorable, to say the least.
  • Fifth year ends with a duo of heartwarming events:
    • Megan and Oliver note that the year was uneventful enough that it sort of felt safe. Then they turn to each other and kiss.
    • Then, after acting like an angsty asshole after Cedric's death, Wayne comes up to Megan and Oliver and asks them if they can go back to being friends. Megan walks up to him like she's about to give him a talking-to...then she gives him the biggest hug.
  • When the trio revisits the Mirror of Rorrimdriew in sixth year, they no longer see the visions from before - they see themselves, together. And Wayne still has a lightsaber.
    • This is right after the trio confronts Xavia Jones and fails to bring her back from evil. Megan pretends to be apathetic...and then she starts sobbing into Oliver's chest. Wayne joins them in a hug - and then they see the mirror, just reflecting their embrace.
  • The whole "I'm a Puff, and I'm staying" scene. To make matters even more emotional, Zac Moon (Wayne) said that scene was the hardest to get through whenever a cast member was leaving the show.
  • Ernie Macmillan and J. Finch-Fletchley hooking up during the battle.
  • The trio showing a bit of sympathy for Harry during the battle:
    Wayne: You think this is how Potter feels all the time?
    Wayne, Megan, and Oliver: It sucks!
  • The Headmaster's posthumous talk with Wayne. Though a little puzzled and strapped for time because he was expecting Harry, the Headmaster does have some comforting words for Wayne, in a genuinely earnest scene.
    Wayne: Headmaster, this is so unfair! I just — I just watched some of my friends die, and now me? What was even the point? I won't be remembered for anything! No one will know my name, I'm just some unnamed dead kid at a school battle...! POTTER'S batte! He gets to be the hero. He gets everything I ever wanted. Why did I have to be so unimportant?
    *There's another brief pause, as the Headmaster looks at him sympathetically.*
    Headmaster: Wayne, it's easy to feel as if you're only a secondary character in someone else's grand story. But that does not mean, however, that there's not another story out there that's all about you, where you're the most important person in the entire world. The hero. Now, we're all important, Wayne, and we're all unimportant. We're all heroes in some way, to someone. And as for your story... I think it was pretty cool.
  • Then of course follows his declaration that love is the most powerful magic on earth. When Wayne objects, the Headmaster conjures up the Puffs flag Wayne received on his very first day at Hogwarts.
    • At least one production alters this so that instead of conjuring up a flag, the Headmaster instead points to the edge of the stage, where Leanne, J. Finch and Sally are all gathered, waving the characteristic Puff wave at him. When he goes to join them, they pull him into a group hug before leaving the stage together with him.
  • The reveal of who the narrator really is: Wayne Rivers-Jones, off to his first day of school nineteen years after the events of the show..
  • Another one out of the show's context: the show has a very close relationship with a Puffs fan podcast called "Lift Up Your Cups," which celebrates the show and its related sequels/prequels. The podcast has gotten multiple shoutouts from the cast, with Julie Ann Earls (Megan) even appearing as a guest on the podcast. It can be found here.

Nineteen-ish Years Later

  • The meeting between Little Wayne and Badass Wayne in the darkest timeline. Sure, it's a timeline in which the Dark Lord has won, Harry is dead and everything sucks, but Badass Wayne is there to provide a little light in the darkness, and Little Wayne gets to meet and bond with the man he was named after.

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