#and the whole cryptic thing like petscop is my SHIT

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James Sirius Potter being in a band.

James was in a few bands here and there during Hogwarts as the drummer (because he absolutely plays the drums) but they didn’t really fit with him. They’d only cover Wizarding songs, the original songs weren’t his style, he had no creative control whatsoever, so he ended up giving up.

During seventh year/just after seventh year, James and two friends decided they could form their own band.

The friends are OCs, one of them is the daughter of Dean and Seamus because fuck you they got married and had a little girl called Lyra, and a muggle born friend James met in primary school called Noah Mori (ftm trans because I CAN).

Noah is the singer/songwriter, though James taught him how to play the drums when they were younger. Lyra is on keyboard and backing vocals, and James is the drummer.

At first they do covers, mainly muggle songs because they’re emo little rats obsessed with bands like Green Day and Pierce the Veil but also James and Lyra are low-key Taylor Swift fans so they cover some of her songs as well.

They have a few gigs in Hogsmeade where they play muggle songs to sort of confuse everyone, but obviously making it clear that the songs are not theirs (No one’s stealing anything here dw).

Noah starts actually writing songs, really good songs, and he decides that he’d rather be in control of the music than be the singer.

James jokingly tries out as the singer but like... he can actually SING.

“I didn’t know you could sing like that!” “Neither did I!”

James becomes the singer, and Noah becomes the songwriter/drummer (though James plays the drums for certain covers and Lyra tends to be the singer for these).

their exact vibe is idkhow so fuck you, their songs are idkhow’s. I’m talking Choke, Nobody Likes the Opening Band, Bleed Magic etc. Noah wrote them. James sings them.

They perform normally in the wizarding world, with their original songs and their muggle covers. James does a cover of I Kissed a Girl which is entirely based on Twenty One Two’s cover.

But in the muggle world: it’s a whole different story.

So you know how idkhow does this thing where their songs/music videos are made out to be found footage from some lost 80s band? Well James’s band does the same, but they take it further. Because obviously we know idkhow isn’t actually a lost 80s band, mainly bc we already knew who Dallon was. But no one in the muggle world knows James, Noah and Lyra.

Noah is in charge, as well as it being his idea. Basically, in the muggle world, their band is made out to be a lost 80s group, who no one knows if they ever became a proper band because all they have are audios of their songs, that were apparently “found” by someone.

Noah sets up a YouTube account, very similar to Petscop, with a completely ordinary username that suggests it really was set up by someone who found these recordings of songs, along with a description outlining how and where they found these recordings, even asking people if they knew who the band was.

No music videos are released, except occasionally a fake video of James, Lyra and Noah doing a cover of a 70s song in what looks like a 70s garage is released, which causes a real stir because it looks like a normal video of a bunch of 70s teenagers jamming around in their garage, but people finally get to see what the members look like.

Honestly, they’ve already grown quite big in the wizarding world so they don’t have too much of a goal to get big in the muggle world too. They just enjoy messing with people.

They also know that any muggleborns who know about both their wizarding persona and their muggle persona can’t reveal that they’re a real band, because any video evidence would involve risking the Statute of Secrecy since they only play in wizarding venues.

Legit whole theories are made about them, straight up creepy pastas, and they’re enjoying every minute of it.

Some muggleborns do come forward to say that the band is real, but again, they can’t show any video evidence so no one believes them. And that just makes it even more fun.

Even the wizarding world gets wind of what they’re doing in the muggle world, and it makes them even more popular.

I haven’t decided if they ever reveal to the muggle world that they’re real, because imagining all the audios and the confusion and stuff is so fun.

Also the band name is Warlocks are Attacking, loosely based on the song title “Ghosts are Rude and Zombies are Attacking” by a YouTuber called emmanoodle (I recommend, they’re so sweet and have great covers/original songs).

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Full timeline of WaA’s muggle persona here