About
Welcome to Order of Merlin: Muggle Class! My name is Spencer Patel and I am a huge Potter-head! I have been a part of this wonderfully magical fandom since 2005 and cannot get enough content! I’ve listened to countless podcasts, watched a plethora of theory videos, and have even delved into some fan-fiction. This is a Harry Potter blog that focuses on all aspects of the Wizarding World! Follow along for chapter by chapter re-read summary and analysis, theory studies, and over all Wizarding World trivia!
I want to share a little about me and help you put a face to the text! I grew up in a little town called Rockwall, TX, which is just NE of Dallas. I graduated from Rockwall High School in 2013, went to Texas Tech University and graduated with a Degree in Spanish in 2018, and now living in Dallas working in the Real Estate industry! I am engaged to the love of my life and my high school sweetheart, Sarah Berger, and I am looking to do something that is a bit out of my comfort zone; start a blog!
I’m going a little out of order here, but before I get into my Potter story, I want to share my Wizarding World Passport specs. I took the Pottermore test several times and have been sorted into Ravenclaw each time! When I looked at my percentages on which house I should be in, there was 2% difference with Hufflepuff, which fits my personality better, but I’ll take the sorting hat’s decision! My wand is made of Hornbeam wood and unicorn hair, 10 and 3/4 inches with pliant flexibility. My Ilvermorny house is Puckwudgie, which makes sense if my second Hogwarts house is Hufflepuff. My favorite quiz by far is the Patronus quiz, and I LOVE my Patronus! It is a Leopard! I couldn’t bare to see it change when I recreated my account in the Wizarding World site, so I went ahead and transferred that over! But now lets see how I got into Potter!
My Potter story isn’t like most peoples, although I dare say it’s not the strangest I’ve heard.
Growing up, I wasn’t allowed to read/watch the Harry Potter series, but, in 2005, I had watched the end of a curiously magical film at friend’s house. For the first time, I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. At that point, I had to know what happened at the beginning/what happened next and, after realizing that there were 3 movies and 5 books out and ready, with a 4th movie on the way and a 6th book in the works, I proceeded to start from the beginning. I began to read the books in order and, at the close of each book, I watched the corresponding movie.
It was excruciating to wait for the rest of the movies and books to come out! Book releases came and I waited for crowds to slow before I picked up my copies of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, but I made sure that I went to the midnight release for every film after Order of the Phoenix!
Alas, the series came to an end and I was beside myself. People think its silly to get attached to fictional characters in books and TV shows, but when you have “spent so much time” with a story, its difficult not to be sad when it ends. So, I naturally did what many of you probably did; I re-read them. In total I’ve probably re-read the books at least 8 times (and once all the way through in Spanish) and have listened to the audiobooks 4-6 times by this point. For a long time I was obsessed with the movies and I re-watched them constantly in the background when I worked on school work and what not. As I mentioned before, I listen to multiple podcasts including, but not limited to Swish and Flick, Potterless, and, while it was still being produced, Dear Mr. Potter.
It was from these podcasts that I was inspired to blog about the Wizarding world. I have so much knowledge about the story, and really no way to use it! So I hope you enjoy this blog and that it is fun and exciting for you to get back into the Wizarding World! Subscribe for updates and new posts, and if you have any recommendations on content that you’d like to see, please feel free to email me at ommuggleclass@gmail.com! For more content, updates, and even some live stream sessions, follow us on Instagram as well!