{"id":95813,"date":"2017-12-14T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=95813"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:42:55","slug":"bot-attempts-to-write-harry-potter-fan-fiction-with-amazing-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bot-attempts-to-write-harry-potter-fan-fiction-with-amazing-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot attempts to write Harry Potter fan fiction, with amazing results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Botnik, a self-described &#8220;community of writers,\u00a0artists and developers collaborating with machines to create strange new things,&#8221; <strong>Harry Potter has been reimagined<\/strong> with the help of a predictive text keyboard &#8212; and the result is hilarious and strange.<\/p>\n<p>The team at Botnik <strong>ran all seven Harry Potter books through the predictive writing bot<\/strong> and then directed it to write a story based on the books. The result, titled <strong><em>Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash<\/em><\/strong>, is by turns weird and beautiful, all the while reading surprisingly like a Harry Potter book. Behold such lines as &#8220;Ron stood there and doing a kind of frenzied tap dance. He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione&#8217;s family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story ends with Harry &#8220;falling down the staircase for the rest of the summer&#8221; and then shouting, &#8220;The dark arts better be worried, oh boy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Botnik.org has also unleashed its predictive text bot on marijuana strain names (fancy some &#8220;banana zero sativa&#8221;?), advertisements, and so much more, promising hours of fun. <a href=\"http:\/\/botnik.org\/\">Don&#8217;t miss it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Botnik, a self-described &#8220;community of writers,\u00a0artists and developers collaborating with machines to create strange new things,&#8221; Harry Potter has been reimagined with the help of a predictive text keyboard &#8212; and the result is hilarious and strange. The team at Botnik ran all seven Harry Potter books through the predictive writing bot and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bot-attempts-to-write-harry-potter-fan-fiction-with-amazing-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bot attempts to write Harry Potter fan fiction, with amazing results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9087,"featured_media":95814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-95813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328405,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95813\/revisions\/328405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95813"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=95813"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=95813"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=95813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}