Humorous Love Quotes

You don’t have to be Hermione Granger to deduce that the artist is definitely a giant Potter fan. Of course Knisley, who moved here eight years ago to study at the School of the Art Institute, will be at the midnight screening Friday, dressed in costume with all the other Hogwarts boosters.

“I read the first book when it came out, when I was 13—which is pretty close to the exact age of Harry and his friends in the first book. My sixth grade teacher, Ms. King, gave it to me,” she says. “I've grown up alongside the characters in the stories and loved the whole trip. I have a lot of fondness for the book series, both because it's great and because it’s spanned my adolescence.”

Her comic-book condensation is filled with funny little quotes and captions. “I was drawing these for fun, so I might as well make it funny to me!” Knisley says. “It's not just a retelling of the plot of the books; it's a parody comic, so there's plenty of jokes, commentary and insider humor.”

With her cartoonist’s perspective, Knisley brings comic relief (no pun intended) to some of the darker elements of the story. The serious parts become less dire, a little more whimsical and humorous. For example, in her version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One , when Voldemort’s pet snake Nagini hides in the body of Bathilda Bagshot before attacking Harry, it says “What up? Let’s hang out.”