Weird Sisters

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Weird Sisters
Organisation information
Intentions	Musical group
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Weird Sisters are a very popular band in the wizarding world, and on the Wizarding Wireless Network. Albus Dumbledore had booked them to perform at the Yule Ball.

Contents 1 Performing and singularity 1.1 Songs 1.2 Instruments 1.3 Clothing 1.4 Gossip 2 Known band members 3 Etymology 4 Behind the scenes 5 Appearances 6 Notes and References

[edit] Performing and singularity

The Weird Sisters are a very popular band among young wizards and witches.

[edit] Songs

Among the Weird Sisters' songs was Do The Hippogriff, Magic Works and This Is The Night which they played at the Yule Ball.

[edit] Instruments

Among the band's instruments were a set of drums, several guitars, a cello, a lute and some bag pipes.

[edit] Clothing

All members of the band were described as being extremely hairy and all wore black robes that had been artfully torn.

[edit] Gossip

The band was popular enough that the marriage of the bass player in 1995 made front-page news in the Daily Prophet.^[1]

[edit] Known band members

• Heathcote Barbary - Rhythm guitar
• Gideon Crumb - Bag pipes
• Kirley Duke - Lead guitar
• Merton Graves - Cello
• Orsino Thruston - Drums
• Donaghan Tremlett - Bass
• Myron Wagtail - Lead singer
• Herman Wintringham - Lute

[edit] Etymology

Weird Sisters was the name given to the three witches in the play "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare. This is arguably where J. K. Rowling got the idea for the band's name from, although a variant of the name, Wyrd Sisters, was used as the title of a 1988 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.

[edit] Behind the scenes

• In the film version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the band which performs deliberately goes unnamed throughout the film because of a legal dispute between the film studio and Canadian folk band Wyrd Sisters. ^[2] The band is simply introduced as "The band that needs no introduction!" Because they are identified in the book as the Weird Sisters, it's safe to assume the band in the film was designed to be them.

• The band's songs were written by Jarvis Cocker, who plays singer Myron Wagtail. "Do The Hippogriff" was a collaboration between Cocker and rhythm guitarist Jason Buckle (Heathcote Barbary).

• The Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, confessed fans of the books, were originally invited to play the Weird Sisters.^[3]

[edit] Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (Mentioned on a shirt) (Mentioned in the Daily Prophet)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (Mentioned on a poster)

[edit] Notes and References