--- title: Dog Responds to Harry Potter Spells in Adorable Video description: Watch YouTuber Anna Brisbin demonstrate how she trained her long-haired mini miniature dachshund Remus to respond to Harry Potter spells. canonical: https://time.com/5496665/harry-potter-dog/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-08T17:11:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:46.472Z og:title: Dog Responds to Harry Potter Spells in Adorably Magical Video og:description: Accio good boy og:url: https://time.com/5496665/harry-potter-dog/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05d33b20753bbda6/698942dd7cdbace267d5ed34/screen-shot-2019-01-08-at-10.14.39-am.png?branch=production&width=1163&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1163 og:image:height: 654 og:image:alt: Dog-Responds-to-Harry-Potter-Spells og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dog Responds to Harry Potter Spells in Adorably Magical Video twitter:description: Accio good boy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05d33b20753bbda6/698942dd7cdbace267d5ed34/screen-shot-2019-01-08-at-10.14.39-am.png?branch=production&width=1163&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dog Who Responds to Harry Potter Spells Is the Most Enchanting Thing on the Internet Today > Sponsored content. 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In an adorable video shared by actor and YouTuber Anna Brisbin on her YouTube channel [Brizzy Voices](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lObFRyZgoZcMYHHqxi9lg), Brisbin demonstrates how she trained her [long-haired mini miniature dachshund Remus](https://www.instagram.com/remus%5Fthe%5Fdoxie/) to respond to _Harry Potter_ spells. As Brisbin waves a wand around, the 1-year-old Remus — who is dressed in standard Gryffindor getup — balances on his hind legs in response to her levitation charm of “Wingardium Leviosa,” plays dead after her “Avada Kedavra” killing curse command and even fetches to complete the task of “Accio ball.” “Oh, you trained your dog in German?” Brisbin tweeted. “Coolcoolcool I trained my dog in _Harry Potter_ spells.” > [](https://twitter.com/BrizzyVoices/status/1082349930390245376) Watch the full video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5496665/harry-potter-dog/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5496665/harry-potter-dog/"},"headline":"Dog Who Responds to Harry Potter Spells Is the Most Enchanting Thing on the Internet Today","datePublished":"2019-01-08T17:11:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:46.472Z","description":"Accio good boy","url":"https://time.com/5496665/harry-potter-dog/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","Harry Potter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05d33b20753bbda6/698942dd7cdbace267d5ed34/screen-shot-2019-01-08-at-10.14.39-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt05d33b20753bbda6/698942dd7cdbace267d5ed34/screen-shot-2019-01-08-at-10.14.39-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dog-Responds-to-Harry-Potter-Spells","caption":"","creditText":"Brizzy Voices","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5496665/harry-potter-dog/","name":"Dog Who Responds to Harry Potter Spells Is the Most Enchanting Thing on the Internet Today"}}]}] ```