A genre of music that is based solely around J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The movement started with the band Harry and the Potters, and branched out from there. The goal of wizard rock is to express the love for J.K. Rowling's books through music.
You can find wizard rock bands such as Harry and the Potters, Draco and the Malfoys, and The Whomping Willows on Myspace.
An indie music movement in which people write and perform songs inspired by the Harry Potter book series. It is a growing fandom within a fandom, with hundreds of bands around the world, many of whom tour and produce CDs. Wizard rock began as a Myspace phenomenon, but it is receiving recognition as a legitimate genre that spans all styles of music.
Harry and the Potters are often considered to be the "fathers of wizard rock."
Wizard rock shows are often performed in libraries to promote literacy.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)