{"id":7483,"date":"2017-06-21T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T11:50:37","slug":"harry-potter-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/harry-potter-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"What if Harry Potter had an iPhone? To celebrate the 20th anniversary, we found out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone<\/em> celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The first tale in the epic saga\u00a0hit our shelves in 1997, a whole ten years before the iPhone was launched.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we never got to see the kind of epic bantz Harry and the gang would have had in the Hogwarts group chat, or the angsty late night tweets HP might have sent as he struggled with his recently discovered wizardly powers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how <em>Harry Potter<\/em> might have unfolded if smartphones were\u00a0around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you thinking &#8220;I wish there was an easy way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/sell-mobile-phones\/\">sell my phone<\/a>?&#8221; Well there is: musicMagpie! Get an instant valuation today and we&#8217;ll pay you the same day your phone arrives. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/mobile-phones\/\">buy refurbished phones<\/a> from us too. <\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Hagrid breaks big news on WhatsApp<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 170%; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; overflow: scroll; top: 0; left: 0;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; overflow: scroll; top: 0; left: 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/if-book-characters-had-smartphones\/img\/convo\/1-3.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The first day of school on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 170%; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; overflow: scroll; top: 0; left: 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/if-book-characters-had-smartphones\/img\/convo\/1-1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Harry struggles with his fame on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 170%; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; overflow: scroll; top: 0; left: 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/if-book-characters-had-smartphones\/img\/convo\/1-2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The first tale in the epic saga\u00a0hit our shelves in 1997, a whole ten years before the iPhone was launched. As a result, we never got to see the kind of epic bantz Harry and the gang would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1920,1553,1921],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12595,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/12595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}