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For Kenneth Lee, his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) means he has always been interested in learning different things.
“I took visual arts and history, and I learned Photoshop just so I could personalise the cards for the online game Game of Heroes: Three Kingdoms,” recalls the 31-year-old product designer of his student days. (Three Kingdoms was an online card-strategy game popular in Hong Kong in the 2000s in which players were assigned a historical character that could be personalised.)
Today, Lee channels his creativity into ChiQSinTV (“crazy TV” in Cantonese) on Instagram and YouTube. He opened his Instagram account in April, and at the time of writing, it has 37,500 followers.
His most popular content sees him reimagining the Harry Potter film series with Cantopop idols or beloved characters from Hong Kong movies like Young and Dangerous (1996).
“It takes three days of locking myself in my room after work to make an episode,” Lee says. Each episode lasts about a minute and a half.
“The most frequently asked question in my comments section is whether or not what I do violates copyright law,” Lee says. “I’ve done some research, and as long as I’m not making money from the content, then it’s OK.”












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His love for Cantonese films and television stems from the death of Hong Kong icon Lydia Sum Tin-ha in 2008.
“I remember watching ‘Dodo’ Cheng Yu-ling visibly tear up and wiping away tears on live television while hosting the TVB tribute special to [Sum]. I really felt that as these legends age and pass, we lose a bit of our culture,” he says.
Lee was introduced to Harry Potter at the age of six, when his grandfather took him to the cinema to watch the first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001). While he has seen the films over a hundred times, Lee did not pick up the book series until he was studying at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
“My father bought me the book in English when I was young, and I felt I had to understand every single word to appreciate the book, which brought on task paralysis or ADHD paralysis, so I never finished reading it.”

While his at-the-time-undiagnosed ADHD impeded his in-class learning in secondary school, Lee remained curious and an incredibly fast learner – he was, for example, quick to pick up programming for games and images. He was also chairman for percussion instruments in his high school orchestra.
Receiving a diagnosis helped immensely. Lee is currently on medication and managing his ADHD symptoms.
“I was so hard on myself,” he says. “I stopped thinking that the things I learned were useless, and when I found my job after I graduated, I came to realise that my skills were useful. Things worked out for me.”
The idea to cross Harry Potter with popular Cantonese culture came about because of his curiosity in AI.
“I started using ChatGPT when it came out, at first just to help me organise my thoughts and research, but as time wore on I felt I could create more.”

He feels that ChiQSinTV is a culmination of his life experiences with ADHD. It was Harry Potter that showed him how a magical wizarding world could coexist with modernity, and it was his love for Hong Kong films that had him casting Chinese celebrities in Harry Potter roles in his head.
“I admit that I have a very active imagination; my mind doesn’t stop, so I have a lot in the vault,” he says.
Due to copyright issues involved in his content, Lee cannot capitalise on his channel’s popularity.
“I only hope to build a community where people who love the content can gather,” he says. “It gave me great satisfaction when someone commented that Hong Kong films are experiencing a renaissance because of my reels.”
He wants people both with and without ADHD to know that whatever they spend their time on will not go to waste.
“What doesn’t seem useful now might help you in the future. Don’t be afraid of being curious.”


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What if Hong Kong celebrities starred in Harry Potter? Kenneth Lee is using his ADHD-driven creativity to reimagine the franchise


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Harry Potter meets Hong Kong pop culture in viral Instagram posts powered by ADHD

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What if Hong Kong celebrities starred in Harry Potter? Kenneth Lee is using his ADHD-driven creativity to reimagine the franchise