Greg, read more than half of the first chapter.

Trey, watch more than half of a first season episode.

We done here?

/seriously, it got a lot better.

You can argue until the end of time about what something is or isn't, whether this is Harry Potter or that is Star Trek and on and on and on. And it's a meaningless question.

The only worthwhile question is, "is it worth reading/watching?"

Meh. I'm mostly with Greg.

I'm a casual fan of the Potter movies and never read the books, but I adore logic and reason. But I lost a lot of interest when Harry wondered how a person could lose enough mass to take on the size of a cat. There are plenty of "science" fiction stories where that sort of thing happens; why not parody those?

Then Harry goes into the bag of gold bit. In any sensible story, the pouch would produce whatever he asked for based on his intentions and not his actual words. If the original novel worked the way the fan fic does, then the novel is just nonsensical—like plenty of stories set in non-magical worlds.

Not much of it was very funny up to that point. Then Harry and McGonagall begin arguing whether a boy whose parents were murdered by an evil wizard should buy an emergency healing kit, and she makes him cry because he suggested that bad things can happen to people, and she asks if he was abused by his foster parents. That's where the story ended for me.