Please enjoy this dramatic reading of the nonsense Harry Potter book written by a bot

Now you can watch Ron eat Hermione's family!
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Proma Khosla
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Please enjoy this dramatic reading of the nonsense Harry Potter book written by a bot
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In December, some truly magical minds at Botnik created a predictive keyboard versed in Harry Potter. The bot wrote an entire book chapter composed entirely of predictive text, and it was glorious. Now there's a dramatic reading – complete with delightfully deranged visuals from Jamie Loftus – to bring that story to life.

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Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash opens on Hogwarts at night, and then things start to get weird. Ron does a tap dance and eat's Hermione's family while Hermione – actually talking sense – wants to go after the Death Eaters attacking the castle. The distinctive illustrations are also extremely literal, which is pretty entertaining for a chapter in which "several long pumpkins fell out of McGonagall."

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The full video is about four-and-a-half minutes, so what are you waiting for?

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Proma Khosla

Proma Khosla is a Senior Entertainment Reporter writing about all things TV, from ranking Bridgerton crushes to composer interviews and leading Mashable's stateside coverage of Bollywood and South Asian representation. You might also catch her hosting video explainers or on Mashable's TikTok and Reels, or tweeting silly thoughts from @promawhatup.


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