Albums: Harry and the Potters, Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock!, Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock

Inspired by J.K. Rowling's world-famous "Harry Potter" series, brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge declared themselves "Harry and the Potters" to perform for friends in a backyard shed at their home in Norwood, Massachusetts, in the summer of 2002. They play simple, catchy tunes, all with a single, encompassing theme - the turbulent life of Harry Potter. Paul plays Harry from Year 7, who (using a time turner) has started a band with Harry from Year 4 (played by Joe).

A couple of years earlier after reading the Harry Potter books, Paul formulated the premise for Harry and the Potters where the principle Harry Potter characters would be the musicians: Harry as the front man, Ron on guitar, Hermione on bass and Hagrid on drums. Then a crisis of sorts struck the brothers on June 22, 2002. During a barbecue at the DeGeorge family’s Norwood Massachusetts home, Joe had advertised a concert with several indie bands.

The venue was the back yard shed. Perhaps the venue was too modest but while an audience had arrived, the bands did not. To rescue a nearly lost opportunity, while waiting hopefully for a band to show, Harry and the Potters came into existence over the next hour when the two brothers wrote seven Potter-themed songs.

They performed that first concert as Harry and the Potters for the audience of six who remained. Of those seven backyard songs, six were to make it onto the band's first album in 2003. The band have since toured throughout North America picking up shows in libraries, all ages venues, and schools.

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