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Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel (2003)

by Michael Gerber

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Warning: You must be a fan of Harry Potter to enjoy this book or you won't get half the references.

Harry/Barry after having saved the Hogwash School of Wizards from the unwelcome attention of Hollywood, is now ready to move on. He has married Hermione/Ermine Cringer and they now have two relatively delightful children. The eldest is a skilled magician, but the youngest just seems to lack that conjurer's touch. Have Barry and Ermine given birth to (gasp) a Muddle?

Names and so on are sometimes funny ("Girlrboy Rockhard" for the swishy Gilderoy Lockhart) and sometimes just plain dull ("Lon Measly" for Ron Weasley).

We come to know Barry for being the hero of a series of books which exposed the wizarding world to Muggle eyes, ending centuries of separation. This play-within-a-play theme is cute, and allows for a lot of funny bits.

In Gerber's madhouse-mirror of the Potterverse, wizards "conjure" things by stealing them from Muggles: the item disappears from a Muggle and reappears for the wizard. Likewise, castles and such are drafty, cold, and without toilets; the wizard village of Hogsmeade/Hogsbleed is a slum of casinos and brothels.

At one point near the middle of the story the plot (if you can hope to discern one) noticeably changes from simple random comedic parody to an independent commentary on prejudice and society.

Overall, not that much of an attempt to authentically parodize the Harry Potter book series, but at least you know there exists an alternative.

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Title Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel: The Book Nobody Has Been Waiting For
Author Michael Gerber
Reviewed By Purplycookie ( )
1 vote purplycookie | Apr 12, 2009 |
Not at all a bad book, funny at times and mostly enjoyable. ( )
  David_Summers | Jul 15, 2007 |
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To Kate, who knows something funny when she reads it, all the Trotteristas who demanded another one...and of course, to YOU! (but only if you paid for it)
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0575075589, Hardcover)

Here it is, just what the 100,000 fans who bought Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody have been waiting for: the inevitable and thoroughly hilarious sequel to the bestselling spoof of the Potter phenomenon.
Not wild about Harry? Or just had enough of the hype? Try Barry, who, having saved the Hogwash School of Wizards from the unwelcome attention of Hollywood, is now ready to move on. He has married Ermine Cringer and they now have two relatively delightful children. The eldest is a skilled magician, but the youngest just seems to lack that conjurer's touch. Have Barry and Ermine given birth to...a MUDDLE?
Michael Gerber, a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, and on Saturday Night Live, once again produces a parody that will have readers--regardless of their views on Harry Potter--laughing uproariously.

(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:52:45 -0500)

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Parody of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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