LEAVE it to Harry Potter fans to have fans of their own. Among the millions awaiting Wednesday’s opening of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” are Potter fanatics who make wizard-themed music that’s spreading like magic.
We’re talking about musicians so devoted to the world of wizards, witches and muggles that they play songs from Harry, Hermione and even Draco Malfoy’s perspective.
They call it Wizard Rock — Wrock, for short. According to a slew of Web sites devoted to the genre, some 600 Potter-themed bands are performing around the country with names like Harry and the Potters, the Whomping Willow and Draco and the Malfoys.
Bands like Nagini with Alastor, Swish and Flick- and Celestial Warmbottom play New York City about once a month, in bars and public libraries. Their styles range from guitar-folksy to punk rock, pop rock and rap, performed mostly to teenage girls.
As Brooklyn’s Swish and Flick rap duo sings on “Cho Chang,” off their new album, “House of Slytherin”:
“Come on Cho Chang shake your thang
Make all the Slytherin boys say Dang!”
The Rhode Island-based Draco and the Malfoys, among the most popular Wrock bands, sings songs like “My Dad Is Rich,” as if Malfoy — Potter’s longtime Hogwarts nemesis — is the lead singer:
“My mom says she loves me when she tucks me into bed
How’s your mommy doing in the Mirror of Erised?”
“People are using Harry Potter as an artistic channel to find themselves creatively,” says Myles Kane, a 30-year-old film editor who performs in New York nightclubs as his alter-ego, MC Kreacher (the name comes from Harry’s miserably put-upon house elf).
Kane wears a gold rope necklace and rubber monster gloves when he’s belting out beats like “House Elf 4 Life” and “Voices in My Head.”
The genre started about seven years ago, when two brothers from the Boston ‘burbs — Joe and Paul DeGeorge, now 22 and 30, respectively — formed a band called Harry and the Potters.
They’ve since released several full-length CDs, including “Scarred For Life” and “Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock.”
Over the years, they’ve become a bit of a phenomenon — a kind of Beatles to the Potter faithful.
“There’s something about this that appeals to really dedicated Harry Potter fans,” says Paul DeGeorge. “These books have had an impact on their lives, and many have grown up with these books.
“You could say that Wizard rock is a real-life manifestation of these books . . . It’s a chance to go out and be with like-minded people and reveal in the joy of Harry Potter in a different way.”