'Chronically online' fans love this remix of a 2001 'Harry Potter' scene: 'If this came on in the club, I would lose it'

A scene from the first Harry Potter movie has lived multiple lives on the internet. The infamous “chess scene” from the 2001 film has birthed a number of memes — mostly due to the young actors’ “overperforming” lines about chess moves — and has now inspired a remix that TikTok users are hoping they’ll hear in the club.

A creator named Lizzie used the relatively new European-based social media platform Frever to create animated avatars of pop culture references dancing to TikTok sounds and songs. Lizzie also uploaded the content to TikTok, where the creator has over 600,000 followers, and sparked a movement by re-creating the pivotal scene.

Using the chess scene audio that was uploaded to TikTok by Peacock, Lizzie’s Frever video shows an animated Harry, Ron and Hermione dancing while lip-synching to the serious dialogue. The contrast struck a chord with viewers and has been viewed over 4.4 million times.

The scene and response inspired Australian producer Leo Zarucky, who added a beat to the dialogue to match the avatars’ dancing. His remix has been viewed over 2.6 million times.

The sentiment among commenters was unanimous: This was an incredible song that needed a full-length version to play in clubs.

“I swear if this came on in the club, I would lose it,” one commenter wrote.

“Lmao as someone who is chronically online I’d go feral if I heard this at a club,” another agreed.

The remix took the meme full circle, with TikTok users re-creating the remixed version of the Frever video in live action. Zarucky said in another video that he loved how creative the responses have been to his “silly lil track.”

Pop singer Tove Lo even joined the trend, with one top comment reading, “one of us … one of us.”

The Harry Potter TikTok community may have even gotten its wish, as one user shared a video showing the remix playing at a club in New York City.

The impact of Harry Potter has spanned 26 years, but the movies in particular have been a go-to source for memes, reaction videos and slang. To “Neville Longbottom,” is to glow up after puberty, like the actor Matthew Lewis who played the character did. People dub others a “Hermione” if they behave in an enthusiastic, academic way. Something as seemingly innocuous as the way actor Michael Gambon, as Dumbledore, read the line “Harry, did you put your name in the goblet of fire?” inspired memes and jokes.

There was “Potter Puppet Pals” and “A Very Potter Musical” — both spin-offs of the movies and books but still producing memes of their own. Even fan reactions to big news, like HBO’s Harry Potter reboot announcement, were in the form of memes.

The Harry Potter universe is intrinsically tied to a lot of internet culture — perhaps because millennials were reading it at the same time as social media was up-and-coming. It’s unusual that one source of content still inspires so many memes and feels relevant decades after its debut. So much so that some fans admit to conflating parodies with real scenes.

“I can’t tell the difference between the real audio and the parody anymore,” one fan commented on the original video.

“I’ve almost completely replaced the ‘he’s going to sacrifice himself’ bit with the meme version in my memory tbh,” another agreed. “I was actually a little thrown off that it sounded so normal.”

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