Yes, we know we promised that we wouldn’t be running any more Harry Potter articles for a while, but this is such a strange story we can’t help but share it.

JK Rowling can’t be accused of failing to cash in on her magical creation. With a successful book series comes the inevitable film adaptations, games and then other tedious crap like Harry Potter stamps, lunchboxes and magic wands. However, we’ve all made the unfunny gag about Harry Potter and drugs. People everywhere have at one point or another called him 'Harry Pothead'. Ho hum, expect it to feature in the next Ricky Gervais set. But with the launch of the new Harry Potter book that some of you may have heard about, an new line of Harry Potter merchandise was discovered in Australia over the weekend. Ecstasy tablets were found with the distinctive Harry Potter logo embossed on them.

JK Rowling probably wouldn’t want Harry Potter to be used on something used to alter the minds of people who indulge in the odd bit of drug-taking.  But it does seems a bit strange that the drug dealers of Australia have decorated their ecstasy with Harry Potter logos. The connection between the two things doesn’t strike us as a particularly strong one, solely because Harry Potter is aimed at children and ecstasy consumption is usually down by clubbers who need a bit of a lift. 

Having said that, mixing the two together does have some quite worrying potential. Since Australia is such a crazy place, it's feasible that scores of clubbers complete with glow sticks, white gloves, dust masks and vests which are a bit too tight lined up at midnight for their copy of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, then went raving in a field shouting nonsense to each other like “That Harry Potter's fucking ‘avin it large. The dude's a proper mentalist with his magic stick an all that shit. The geezer is propa buzzin more then a bee.”

Actually, that sounds like Tracey from Big Brother. Did someone leak a copy of the book to her before she went in? With all the false Harry Potter rumours flying around before its release, she could have ruined it for everyone queueing at bookshops.

But then the situation could have been so much worse. Drug dealers potentially posing as bored book shops assistants could have slipped the kiddiewinks a tablet as part of a free Harry Potter gift promotion. Scores of young readers would have believed they really were Harry and attempted to compete in a game of Quidditch, thus resulting in multiple drug-blasted children being peeled off the pavement as they quickly realise they can’t fly. And aren’t wizards. But we all know that’s a rubbish assumption to make.

Of course, the target audience for Harry Potter books don’t do drugs. Instead they're either trying to bum cigarettes off people, get pissed on cheap cider or are pregnant. Doing drugs is what they do when they're 14 or 15. Expect a new wave of drugs to follow the Harry Potter ecstasy, like Hermione’s Good Old Fashioned Heroin Mix, Dumbledore’s Easy-Time Cannabis and JK Rowling’s own brand of poppers, available in three different head-rushing smells. 

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Ecstasy Pills Using Harry Potter Logo Discovered – Sydney Morning Herald