For Those About to WRock . . .

Harry and the Potters may have started the whole Wizard Rock/WRock mess, but it was L.A.’s Remus Lupins who penned the movement’s anthem, “Wizard Rock,” which pretty much sums things up in its opening lines: “I’m skipping Potions class/To teach you how/To rock and roll.” You, too, should skip class,...

By Clay McNear

October 30, 2008

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Harry and the Potters may have started the whole Wizard Rock/WRock mess, but it was L.A.’s Remus Lupins who penned the movement’s anthem, “Wizard Rock,” which pretty much sums things up in its opening lines: “I’m skipping Potions class/To teach you how/To rock and roll.”

You, too, should skip class, or work, or just exit the MuggleNet for a couple of hours and check out the Wizard Rock Concert. Yes – sigh – you’ll have to wade through a sea of Ron Weasleys, but it’ll be worth it, ’cause Remus Lupins, for lack of a better word, wrocks.

Tue., Nov. 11, 2 p.m., 2008

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