I met a magical cartographer at Granger Leadership Academy in March 2019. Xandra Robinson-Burns is an essayist who runs Heroine Training, providing lessons on how to apply love of fiction and magic to daily life, becoming the heroine of your own story. I was introduced to her by Grace Gordon, who said firmly, “You will
Hello, alums of Granger Leadership Academy 2019! Thank you to those who were part of our discussion on March 23, “The Functional, Thriving Activist.” A few people have asked about the descriptions of ourselves, by House, that some fellow volunteers and I came up with when we were figuring out effective ways to work together.
Note: Dear good people, do not do what I did. Do not throw out everything you prepared for writing a 20-minute talk on the day before the talk is scheduled because you’ve just realized that there’s something you really have to write about, so you have to scrap everything and start over. That was not a
Modified from comments delivered at LeakyCon, Dallas, TX, August 10, 2018. Welcome to “Coming to Terms with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” My name is Lorrie Kim and I’m the author of Snape: A Definitive Reading. I got the idea for this session because I was seeing a lot of Potter fans feeling conflict
This is a modified version of a panel titled “Snape Celebration! Talk and Trivia” delivered at LeakyCon, Dallas, TX, on August 11, 2018. Welcome to a celebration of Snape. I love Snape, but I’m going a little dark in this talk. Here are some of the complicated reasons I celebrate Snape. He’s not materialistic. Like
On September 2, 2017, I teamed up with Professor Shannon Sauro of Snapecast to present “A Celebration of All Things Snape” at LeakyCon 2017. We asked audience members to jot down notes or questions if there were things they wanted to discuss. Here are some of the notes we didn’t manage to get to, along with
Note: This was how I introduced a discussion session about gay representation in Potterverse at MISTI-Con. These remarks were meant to provide general background only and to get the conversation started, not to be analytical or comprehensive. — LK Delivered Saturday, May 21, 2017 at MISTI-Con. Twenty years since Philosopher’s Stone was first published. Seven books in
for Snape: A Definitive Reading Delivered at MISTI-Con, Laconia, New Hampshire, on Sunday, May 21, 2017 It’s been 10 years since Nagini bit Snape and the fandom still fights about this character. Yet we all read the same books and watched the same movies. It’s not like there are two series of Harry Potter books,
This 5-minute talk was presented at a panel about the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at 221B Con, April 9, 2017. Newt Scamander says about what’s in his case: “Please don’t hurt those creatures—there is nothing in there that is dangerous.” What do we know about how Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald? We know it
Delivered at the Harry Potter Conference at Chestnut Hill College, October 21, 2016. It is incomplete, designed to fit into a 20-minute conference slot, but there will be plenty more to discuss along these lines, including Ron’s characterization as a Jungian trickster and the way Draco’s love for Astoria continues to strengthen him, as Snape
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