| abstract | - The Harry Pothead was conceived by William Shakespeare when he was writing MacBeth. He envisioned it as a light dramady that would chronicle a young schoolboy's quest for drugs. However, Queen Amadalla Episode III showed no interest in the project and Shakespeare modified it into what we now call MacBeth (actually if you say "MacBeth, you will die when the ghosts of all dead people rape you simultaneosly, so I wouldn't advise this). The beginnings of the Harry Pothead Series remained untouched until the late 1800's when Oscar Wilde discovered Shakespeare's notes. Wilde took the story and modified it to make the young schoolboy homosexual. Many renowned critics argue if Wilde did this to vicariously experience the schoolboy's close (uncomfortably close) relationships with his attractive Potions teacher. Wilde was himself, homosexual. Until the 20th century, Harry Pothead remained simply a collection of notes and dimebags. This was until the now famous Caimbridge student, J.R.R. Tolkien discovered the notes of Shakespeare and Wilde while completing his dissertation on "British Homosexual Authors and Their Sexuality's Effect on Their Work." Seeing potetial in this story, Tolkien stopped his doctoral research and further developed it. It was at this point the schoolboy became known as Harry Pothead. Tolkien claims the name came from witnessing an extremely stoned Prince Harry, who was dressed as a Nazi at the time. “Dude, there was like this crazy party in Amsterdam, man and Prince Harry was there. He was so stoned man. And we were drunk [you] know. So we started calling him Harry Pothead. It stuck.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien on the origins of Harry Pothead Tolkien published the Harry Pothead series in 7 volumes. These volumes were ridiculously long, some being up to 1 Billion pages in length. For a year after a release date of a new book, children would shut themselves in their rooms and read. They refused to go to school, play outside, and some refused to eat and died of hunger.
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