Where is leakycon in chicago

Please reconsider switching fandoms, loser. All 4, or so registrations for the convention — sold through Leaky Cauldron, the popular fan site from which LeakyCon gets its name all the better to ward off the Dark Lawyers of Copyright Infringement — were snapped up in a blink, purchased by Chicagoans, Midwesterners, Europeans, Australians, muggle parents.

Muggle Katherine Carter, there with her year-old, Jacqueline, has never read the Potter books and only seen "like five minutes" of the films; still, she flew in from Australia, "because my daughter talked me into it. Courtney Brother, 17, said: "I came to meet people who like Harry, basically. Precocious Aidan West of Connecticut — his Adam's apple quite British, his thick, plastic, oval eyeglasses quite Potter — explained the allure to a geriatric newspaper reporter this way: "LeakyCon is for a different level of fan.

I wonder, might you be from that 'Star Wars' generation, perhaps? This is 'Star Wars' for young people, OK? As with any summer camp, there were uniforms — campers in gray Hogwarts sweaters, school ties, pleated skirts, black wizard robes, scarfs and matching quidditch uniforms. There were cliques: The Potter Puppet Pals passed by, superpopular. There were StarKids and Nerd Fighters. Oh, and actual Dalton Academy Warblers from"Glee"! LeakyCon, though Potter-centric, does offer olive branches to tangentially related fandoms.

There were sports — for the record, the big quidditch finale, between Puddlemere United and the Appleby Arrows, was decided Saturday afternoon, with the Puddles trouncing the Apples There were pranks.

OK, who left the napkin taped to the elevator on Friday reading "The dark lord will rise here tonight at 9"? Not funny, people! There were slumber parties. Two Hilton employees could be heard saying: "They plan to. And by day, there were classes, lots of classes — some serious, some not: Zev Burrows, book critic from Time magazine and part-time fantasy author could be heard during a session on vampire dating suggesting a makeover to a teenage girl experiencing mixed feelings "My problem is I'm 16 and my boyfriend is !

There was a grand debate, argued often in character, on whether Slytherin Hall, the sketchiest of Hogwarts' four houses, should be booted out "This is not the fault of Slytherin Hall. This is a failure of the culture of Hogwarts! See you there! In each talk John focused on one Harry Potter novel and spoke about ten points even very serious fans and attentive readers almost certainly missed.

We know that the magic of Harry Potter is the remarkable artistry and story-scaffolding of Ms. Granger charts the series architecture and the lay-out of every book so this structure is unmistakable and then he links this traditional artistry to Ms. Suffering from anorexia, she wrote to Rowling for help and received a reply that set her on the road not only to recovery but stardom as the character Luna Lovegood. Here she can be seen weaving her way through the crowds at a Starkid concert to chatter with fans.

She said the Potter story is "something you can't disengage from… It charted their childhood, their transitions being teenagers and then adults. Having that so entwined with your life, it's then impossible to take yourself out of it and say goodbye to Harry Potter. It would just be the most unnatural, strange and weird thing in the world to me.

It would be like denying a part of myself … ". She speaks about the connection between her own tribulations, her character and fans, for whom both she and Luna Lovegood matter, inseparably, during hard times: "I got this huge privilege of playing [Luna]. This character who so many people look up to, inspired in their daily lives to help them overcome these demons. I owe it to her and all these people to spread her message, which is to be yourself and embrace that; and be your most bold and crazy version of yourself.

I have a duty, and not only that — I want to do this work. Trying to help people who are going through these struggles helps me to get to grips with myself. The young people in Chicago seem to have one thing in common: they are not the "in" crowd, not the set that flaunts its self-confidence from party to party, boyfriend to boyfriend. They tend to be the people — mostly white, middle-class girls — who have no gang but each other, and when they converge it is heartwarmingly hilarious.

Where it's OK to be nerdy, or passionate about something.