Harry Potter Predictive Text Chapter

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Harry Potter Predictive Text Chapter refers to a fake chapter of Harry Potter written by a bot trained on the Harry Potter books using predictive keywords selected by comedy writers. After Botnik Studios tweeted the chapter, it went viral as Twitter users filled spread the chapter and commented on the humorous lines of dialogue.

Origin

On December 12th, 2017, @BotnikStudios^[1] tweeted a fake chapter of Harry Potter written by a robot trained on the books using predictive keywords as the text. The tweet of the chapter, from a fake book titled "Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash," gained over 33,000 retweets and 70,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

Quickly, Twitter users celebrated the piece as well as many of its humorous lines. Twitter user JuliWithAnA^[2] tweeted "I'm sorry but i need 7 books of this.
"I'm Harry Potter", Harry began yelling. "The dark arts better be worried, oh boy!"", gaining 360 retweets and over 1,700 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @dirtylonghair^[3] quoted “The Death Eaters were dead now, and Harry was hungrier than he had ever been,” gaining 85 retweets (shown below, right).

Additionally, some Twitter users created fan art about the story. Twitter user @ElsaSketch^[4] uploaded fan art of Dumbledore with a quote from the fan fiction, gaining over 1,100 retweets. (shown below, left). A piece of fan art by @Cheyenne_Curtis^[5] gained 3 retweets and 73 likes (shown below, right).

The story was covered by many media outlets, including Daily Dot,^[6] Twitter Moments,^[7] Bustle,^[8] and Refinery29.^[9]