Harry Potter Fandom Excitement at SDCC 2018

FictionAlley's Heidi will again be hosting the Harry Potter fandom panel - but this year, it's on Thursday night at 8:15 pm in Room 6DE.We'll be making some FictionAlley announcements and discussing all the magic in and around the Harry Potter/Wizarding World fandom (and canon!) with panelists including journalists Elizabeth Minkel (Fansplaining) and Catherine Horvath (MuggleNet), event organizer Chandrika Moka (Wands Up San Diego), sportsters Dawn Biggs (Hogwarts Running Club) and Jessica Ward (US Quidditch), and creative fans like Eliyannah Amirah Yisrael (Hermione Granger & the Quarter Life Crisis), novelist Alexa DeGennaro (Brightly Burning), podcast play producer Mick Ignis (The Great Wizarding War Podcast), podcaster Gary Roby (HarryPotterMinute), playwright Matt Cox (Puffs; Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic).
You can also catch some wizarding magic at WB's Cinema Panel in Hall H on Saturday morning -- we expect Fantastic Beasts cast members to be there -- and at Melissa Anelli's panel on 20 years of Harry Potter on the printed page, on Saturday afternoon. 
We hope to see you there - and make sure you pick up a special badge ribbon and postcard from Heidi if you see her!

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10th Annual Harry Potter Fandom Panel at SDCC

In 2017 we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone at San Diego Comic Con’s 10th annual Harry Potter Fandom Panel - if you’re going to be at SDCC, we hope you’ll join us!

On Sunday, July 23 at 2pm in Room 6BCF (right before the Buffy panel) we’ll talk all things Potter/fandom with @heidi8 (FictionAlley, @transformativeworks), journalist @elizabethminkel (New Statesman, @fansplaining), Kat Miller (MuggleNet), educator Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education ( @ebonyteach​)), event organizer Adrienne Alwag (Dumbledore's Army [LA]), and creative fans like writer/director/actor Nick Lang (A Very Potter Musical, StarKid Productions (@the-real-team-starkid )), novelist @alexadonne (Brightly Burning), fan filmmaker Justin Zagri (Severus Snape and the Marauders), theatrical producer David Carpenter (Puffs; or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic), and Jessica Ward of @usquidditch discuss the magic of new canon on stage, on screen, in amusement parks, in libraries, and, of course, online.

(And if you’re in San Diego next week, please join @transformativeworks for A Meetup Of Our Own on Thursday night at Analog Bar for hosted nibbles (thanks to OTW and the re:Create Copyright Coalition) and a cash bar; RSVP here!)

Harry Potter Fandom @ San Diego Comic Con

San Diego Comic Con is next week, and there's a number of events on the schedule for Harry Potter fans. Daniel Radcliffe will be at Nerdist at Petco Park on Saturday afternoon for an on-stage Q&A, and on Sunday, SDCC welcomes the return of the annual Harry Potter Fandom Panel.

It'll be July 12 at 10:15 AM in Room 6A; this year, the panelists are:
Adrienne Alwag-Aipia of Dumbledore’s Army of Los Angeles
Alex Benpe of usquidditch
Jackson Bird of The HP Alliance
Alexa Donne of leviosacon
Madhuri Shekar, playwright of Love & Warcraft and frequent FictionAlley author
rachaelvaughn of snapecast (& threepatchpodcast)
Wrocker Sunny Williams
Justin Zagri, director of The Greater Good and Severus Snape & the Marauders

Also, on Thursday and Friday, Friend of FA friend Hansi Oppenheimer will have her production team at SDCC to interview fandomers for SQUEE!, her forthcoming documentary on fandom - let her know if you’re interested in doing an interview.

Heidi is also modding a panel on fandom which also features FictionAlley founder Flourish Klink.  “Fandom Is Our Fandom, or We All Live in a Coffee Shop AU” is on Thursday at 5 PM in room 14A, and the other panelists are: 

Amanda Brennan (aka continuants) (Community & Content Tumblarian, staff)
flourish klink (Chaotic Good, Inc., Transmedia Producer for eastloshigh)
meredithgene (Fanthropologist, ZEFR)
Aron Levitz (Head of Business Development, wattpad)
elizabethminkel (Writer, New Statesman/The Millions)
Betsy Rosenblatt (Legal Committee Chair, transformativeworks
Missyjack (aka Jules) (Editor in Chief, supernaturalwiki)

You can also catch us at Game of Bloggers on Wednesday night at the Dragon Bar; we're joining Crazy4ComicCon and almost a hundred other websites for fun, celebrations of all things geeky, and great conversation. If you're not able to get to San Diego, we'll be tweeting about all things Harry Potter and fandom from July 8 through the 12th!