when people don't leave their houses for days or hours (depending on how fast a reader one is) at a time as a result of the latest harry potter book coming out. nobody goes online or outside for fear that someone might reveal the ending.
girl: Mom, can I hang out with you tonight? The new Harry Potter just came out and nobody's free. On second thought, maybe I'll just go out and buy the book.
When something ubearable and disgusting becomes extremely popular only because it's... popular.
This usally happens when the popular kids at some schools take interest in something (those kids are dumbasses and have no sence of judgement) stumble across something they see on MTV or something and fall in love with it. The popularity will spread through America (and sometimes the world, like this definition's name sake: Harry Potter). The people's minds will be convinced that they like what they are seeing/hearing/reading/watching. If these objects were not popular, anybody who would have been a fan would notice how horrible it really is.
Harry Potter, Mad TV, Avril Lavigne, Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys, Ashlee Simpson, Hillary Duff, and Dragon Ball Z are all products of the Potter Effect.
The Potter Pals is a famous video on youtube that has been spread to myspcace. The Potter pals is a video starring Snape, Dumbledore, Ron Weasly, Heriome Grangery, and Harry Potter. They all sing there names at the same time.
SnapeSnape salvara Snape.reapeatDumbledore!same time
The Potter Pals.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.