Harry Potter Conference

Update: Speaking of Harry Potter conferences, Penny has just uploaded the video of her roundtable discussion, “Voldemort Understands Nothing,” and you’ll get to see yours truly opening his big mouth and blabbing a bit.  I talk at the 3:33 mark of the first video and just after the 9:00 mark of the second (though you’ll not know the context of the conversation if you just fast-forward there.)

I’m back and recovered after a whirlwind trip into Dekalb, IL, for a one-day Harry Potter conference.  ”Searching for Platform 9 3/4″ was held on the campus of Northern Illinois University.  It wasn’t your typical Potter conference with 700-1500 people; it was a smaller event, and I like that.  

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there very long, but the time I was there was well-spent.  I got to meet some Hog’s Head patrons like Brent, who comments here fairly regularly, as well as Richard, who tells me he makes his college students come to my website.  (Richard, feel free to contact me if ever you want me to set anything up specifically for your class – a post, series of posts, podcast, whatever you need.)  I was also able to catch up with my good friends John Granger and David and Toni Gras.  It’s always a pleasure to be with you.

As soon as I have time to work through the edits, I’ll have some audio from the conference posted.  Toni took some photo and video which we might be able to make available as well.

For those finding this site for the first time after attending the conference, click here for a welcome post to introduce you to The Hog’s Head.

Inside joke, for anyone who was at the conference: Tell me, did you go to John’s talk?

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