“The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.” It has been exactly two years since I last posted on this website, this labor-of-love, this space devoted to fandom…
Happy New Year! Finally, we can put 2016 behind us and hope for a better year. As I sift through the “#worstyearever” hashtag, I feel as though I need to remind myself of the good things that were given us in 2016. Certainly, this doesn’t make up for all those that we’ve lost this year—Alan…
Happy New Year! What a year 2015 was. During 2015, we saw Pottermore’s complete overhaul (for good or for worse). We went to the very first GeekyCon. We saw the film adaptation of John Green’s novel Paper Towns. We saw the last Hunger Games movie. We saw season five of Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey. We read yet another Cormoran Strike novel. We saw…
Pottermore was launched to the public almost four years ago. Somehow, it simultaneously feels longer and shorter than that. I was lucky enough to become a Beta tester on Harry’s birthday, July 31st, 2011, a little over two weeks after the last Harry Potter film was released. A lot happened in that time. I went to…
It’s September 1st, and I don’t know about you, but my social media feeds were pretty well saturated with posts about missing the train to Hogwarts for the Nth year in a row, or some who claimed that they had boarded the Hogwarts Express (“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why…
Honestly, never have I been more excited for a convention. I mean, there is definitely a very, very, very special place in my heart for LeakyCon and GeekyCon, but this convention is going to be a bit different for me. This will be the first convention in a while where I will be going as a…
In 2011, after years of reading the Harry Potter books and watching the movies, years of visiting “fansites” like The Leaky Cauldron and listening to their podcast, PotterCast, years of writing for a fan website of my own, I decided to attend a then relatively new convention called LeakyCon in Orlando, Florida. Only knowing a…
Black Friday has now passed us by and Cyber Monday is mere hours away. This is the perfect time to ask yourselves: Do you have enough ornaments for your tree? Are they geeky enough to be the envy of your friends when they visit you for the holidays? If the answer to either of those…
Dolores Jane Umbridge. Thestrals. Sybill Trelawney. Azkaban. The Ministers for Magic. We learned more about these characters, places, creatures and more in the latest release on Pottermore today. Other online news sources have been hyping the Professor Umbridge backstory in particular, probably because her character is the most fitting for Halloween. Why the words “new Harry…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost three full months since LeakyCon 2014’s Closing Ceremonies! (It’s taken me a long time to write this because real life hit me pretty quickly since I arrived back in Minnesota from Orlando. I’ve been writing a little every few days since then.) While at 2014’s greatest, geekiest week,…