Music preferences in the HP world (if they listened to Muggle music)

[frankielee242]

This is something I think about myself. Hurray, wasting time!!

Jack wrote:
> First of all, my goal is not to try to deliberately say what JKR 
> should write in future books.  My goal is to waste time.
> 
> According to Dumbledore's trading card, he enjoys chamber music.  
> So I got to thinking about other characters and here's what I cameup 
> with (feel free to contradict me if necessary):
> 
> BILL WEASLEY: Based on his roadie-for-AC/DC appearance, I'd figure 
> him to be into Led Zeppelin, the Ramones, Van Halen (not Van Hagaror 
> Van Cherone), etc.

Bang on, I think. The crazy, fun metal. Charlie too-- maybe more Poi
Dog Pondering, the Police and Sugar Cubes for him, though.

 
> FRED AND GEORGE: "Weird Al" Yankovic (since they're a couple of 
> clowns).  And by the way, it's pronounced yank-oh-vik, not vich.  
> (Sorry, it's just almost everybody I talk to pronounce it "vich").

And possibly a good bit of the Dead Milkmen and whatever Bill and
Charlie left lying around. Percy, on the other hand, would probably
listen to Rush or anything that Mrs. Weasley didn't object to. Like
the Eddi Brochel and the New Bohemians genre (spelling... can you tell
I'm not into EB & tNB?)


> GINNY: I hate to say it, but probably groups like N-Stync or 
> Britney Spears.  Sorry, but she almost fits the stereotype.

Ouch. Then again, I'd have to agree.

RON: Would have grown up with his brothers' music and have branched
out into grunge. He is unsatisfied with being the last Weasely boy,
after all. Also, keep in mind the books are more or less set in the
early/mid nineties.

HARRY: Stuck listening to the top 40 garbage Dudley and gang probably
enjoy, Ron's musical tastes would be a welcome change.


> HAGRID: Being a bit of a woodsman, he'd probably enjoy Creedence 
> Clearwater Revival.

What about Van Morrison, the Chieftains and other folk? I can see him
sitting in with the band down at the Three Broomsticks-- playing
pipes, drum, whatever. Same goes for Professor Sprout.


> HERMIONE: She'd probably enjoy classical music, such as Gershwin or 
> Mozart.

I don't really see Hermione as being interested in youth pop culture
either. Since both of her parents are dentists, she'd think of music
as a background noise. I bet she'd be into J.S. Bach as she would have
undoubtedly read somewhere that it was good "brain" music. Maybe she'd
be into Cole Porter and Ella Fitzgerald, too.

MINERVA: Definitely into J.S. Bach. and other baroque composers.
Possibly a closet swing or big-band fan... =)

SIBYL: Ambient crap like Deep Breakfast. Or maybe eastern music, which
would actually be pretty cool of her.


Last, but oh-so-far from least--

> SNAPE: With his black robes and long hair, Severus Snape could 
> probably enjoy various heavy metal groups like Slayer.

I'm going to have to disagree a little. Maybe he took the Black
Sabbath to Slayer route, but I think he would have started out with
mid-seventies punk (thinking of "God Save the Queen" by the Sex
Pistols), then moved into goth (Skinny Puppy, Coil and Nine Inch
Nails) in the eighties and then into the most twisted, aggressive, and
dissonant music on the market in the nineties (thinking of Godflesh). 


Frankie 
(who wouldn't say no to grinding on that boy at a warehouse party. =P)