Divination may have been Harry Potter's least favorite class, but it looks like at least one of his fans has the gift of the inner eye.
Potter fan and YouTube legend Hank Green rocketed to fame in 2007 with his pre-final book song "Accio Deathly Hallows." Though the video was released in the days leading up to Deathly Hallows' publication, it had some prescient lines:
"I have no confidence
In theories about the half blood prince
And what if Harry's brain is a horcrux?
Holy crap that would freakin' suck!"
"But in the end I don't think it's gonna matter
If Snape's good or if he's bad
Because the weight of the world rests on our boy"
In a throwaway lyric, Green even predicted one of the most heartbreaking deaths of the series: "What... if Voldemort killed Hedwig just for yuks?"
Green's psychic abilities have long been a topic of conversation in the Harry Potter world, as well as in the 'Nerdfighter' fan community that developed around Green and his brother John Green's YouTube channel.
But Green's predictions didn't stop with the original books.
In his 2013 song "Oh, JK Rowling," Green playfully pleaded with the author to get back to writing. The song hit the Internet just two days before she revealed that she was writing under the pen name Robert Galbraith -- and her new book, The Cuckoo’s Calling.
In the same song, he brought up Rowling writing a screenplay; 2 months later to the day Rowling was announced as the screenwriter for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trilogy. The song asks for a Harry Potter prequel show on Broadway; Green was only slightly off, now that we're getting a sequel show on the West End instead.
But the biggest prediction Green ever made has only just come true. In 2008, a year after "Accio Deathly Hallows," he posted the song "Book Eight." The opening lyrics, of course, are:
I know I'm not the the only one
Who wants to know more about Harry's sons.
I really do think there's an
Unwritten story
And I think it's time to put
Fingers to keys.
With the announced publication of the Cursed Child play -- which focuses on Harry's youngest son, Albus -- Hank Green's psychic ability is undoubtable.
Having seen him in person, I can attest that he isn't secretly a star-reading centaur -- but there's no word yet on whether he uses a crystal ball.