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	<title>Tech &#187; Gina Elliott &#124; TIME.com</title>
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		<title>Tech &#187; Gina Elliott &#124; TIME.com</title>
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		<title>Post-Potter Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This entry contains no plot details from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but may still be slightly spoiler-ish. Well, I’m finished with Deathly Hallows. I turned the last page at 8:45 Saturday night (I took two four-hour breaks for sleep), and I’m still thinking about it and trying to absorb everything. I loved it. I really did. But it was so, so, different from all the other Harry Potter books. All the others have had a definite climax, near the end of the school year, followed by a wrap-up talk with Dumbledore, and usually a train ride home. In the past few books, that climax has involved a major death, and usually many tears from fans. In Deathly Hallows, however, there were emotional bits all over the place. And rather than a definite ending/climax (though there was one), I felt the book was split up into three or four parts, each with its own intrigue and, unfortunately, deaths. And that was not the only change in Deathly Hallows. I also felt that this volume lacked a major twist at the end. In other words, the ending could have been, and was, guessed in some respects. But the beauty of this novel (and all the Harry Potter novels) was in the small details, that came completely from Jo’s imagination, and that no fan ever thought of. So I don’t really mind that the ending wasn’t a total shock—as Lev said in his review, it was inevitable that somebody online would have guessed it—because Jo put her own unique twist on it that made it fresh and new. Similarly, I didn’t mind that not all ends were wrapped up. I never expected to find out some of the burning questions of Harry Potter fans, because many of then are simply inconsequential. What I loved, again, was that Jo included details that I had never thought to guess about. One example (and this is a terribly minor spoiler), is how Dumbledore broke his nose. I can’t speak for every fan, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=337&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Night of the Deathly Hallows</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2007/07/21/the_night_of_the_deathly_hallo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s here. I’ve got it. I picked up my copy at 00:30, and haven’t set it down since. But I haven’t started reading. Right now I’m just clutching it, putting off the moment that I will read the first sentence of a Harry Potter book for the last time. I have read the dedication and the list of chapter titles. The former almost made me cry, while the latter piqued my interest greatly. I can tell this book is going to be amazing. Tonight has already been long, full, and exciting. At about 8 pm I arrived at the street party Scholastic was holding in SoHo, New York. They had various activities, such as face-painting, a board to write memories on, and a place to take your picture in a cut-out of the US cover. But mainly my friends and I wandered around, absorbing everything. The atmosphere was absolutely amazing—everyone was cheery, everyone was friendly. People in elaborate costumes were willing to pose for picture upon picture with fans. Whenever we got in to a line, we invariably ended up making conversation with the people around us, about either predictions for Deathly Hallows or something entirely different. Then we walked over to Union Square, where a massive party was taking place in the Barnes and Noble bookstore. After fighting our way through a mob outside, we made it up to the top floor right before it was closed, just as Jim Dale began reading extracts from the earlier books. Instead of craning our necks to see him, we sat at the back with a group of people and watched him on a TV screen. It was amazing to be hearing the Harry Potter books being read aloud with so many fans around you. Everyone laughed at all the jokes, even though we knew they were coming, and (almost) everyone was willing to participate in a loud chorus of Hogwarts’ school song. Once again my theory about the kindness of Harry Potter fans was confirmed—all of us in the group at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=335&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Counting Down the Minutes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2007/07/20/counting_down_the_minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we’re almost there. Less than two hours to go for those in the UK and beyond, and less than seven for the rest of us. In Australia, where the release time is 9 am on Saturday, friends of mine are queuing outside Borders (having woken up at 4 am). In London, fans who were lucky enough to win a contest are eagerly waiting the first reading of Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. If you’re not at a party by that time, tune in to Scholastic.com at 6:50 EST to catch the reading. Here in New York, we still have some hours to go, but festivities are already starting to kick off. A Scholastic-run street fair started at 5 pm in SoHo, and at the Barnes &#38; Noble in Union Square, there have already been lines round the block to get just a wristband to mark a place in line at midnight. I arrived at 10 am, when the store opened, and waited two hours for my wristband—number 407. Rumors were milling throughout the line that lucky number 1 had started camping late yesterday afternoon. It really is almost upon us now. People are, one by one, signing offline for the last time before the book, often with long posts about everything Harry Potter has meant to them. The common salute is “see you on the other side,” which somehow seems very fitting. So here’s to a magical night, and “To Harry Potter— the boy who lived!”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=334&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Values learned through Wizard Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a Wizard Rock concert, and it was truly a magical experience. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Wizard Rock is the name of an extremely broad genre of music. It can be country, metal, typical rock or anything else. The only thing all bands have in common is that they sing about the Harry Potter books&#8212;often from the perspective of a character from the book. The concert I was at was in Queens, New York, and it was all the more special because everyone there knew that in twenty-four hours they would be standing on line for Deathly Hallows. Looking around, I noticed something that I often notice when I&#8217;m in a room full of Potterheads. There is extreme diversity within the fandom. And not just ethnically&#8212;the types of people at the concert were incredibly varied. There were adult men and women in costume, teenagers in home-made shirts, and men who I would never have singled out as fans, singing along to every song, and loving it. One woman turned to me and said &#8220;We are so collectively nerdy right now,&#8221; but that was OK, because everyone embraced it. The only thing that didn&#8217;t seem varied was the politics&#8212;the biggest &#8220;boo&#8221; of the night came when Harry and the Potters, while discussing Professor Umbridge, mentioned the No Child Left Behind Act. I noticed another thing, however. I noticed how Harry Potter fans, no matter how loudly they yell &#8220;Voldemort I think that you are pretty freaking awesome&#8221; with Draco and the Malfoys, are inherently really good people. Before Harry and the Potters (probably the most famous Wizard Rock band) came on to play, someone from the Harry Potter Alliance stood up to introduce them. The premise of the Alliance is to fight &#8220;real world&#8221; evil, such as the genocide in Darfur, using the values we learn through the Harry Potter books. He went on for a while about love, and Dumbledore, and everything else. It got pretty cheesy but, at the end, there were quite<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=332&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If the series ends, will the fandom end too?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2007/07/19/if_the_series_ends_will_the_fa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My copies of Harry Potter wouldn&#8217;t be so tattered if I didn&#8217;t love reading and rereading the books, even when I know the endings by heart. So I understand what some people were saying in the comments on my last post&#8211;spoilers don&#8217;t matter to everyone. But all the same, it is a completely different experience to read a book knowing the ending, and reading it having no idea. Personally, I want to have the experience of guessing, missing clues, and being completely surprised. I&#8217;ll probably open the book again as soon as I finish, and reread with the ending in mind, but that will be a very different experience. I want that first read, which can never be replicated, and that I&#8217;ll never have again with Harry. And that brings me on to my topic for today: The End. Putting aside the book, and what happens to Harry, people are looking towards &#8220;The End&#8221; with a certain amount of apprehension, and fear. This is because, as Dumbledore said, we fear &#8220;the unknown,&#8221; and nobody knows what is going to happen to the Harry Potter fandom when the final book comes out. So far, the fandom has been kept alive by the unbearable wait between books, the theorizing and hypothesizing about what will come next. But on Friday night the wait, and the guessing, comes to an end. Sure, people will need a few months to digest and discuss, but after that&#8230; nobody knows. People who have made close friends through Potter are quick to assure themselves that they will not let friendships fade, but the fandom as a whole is not so sure about its fate. With no new books, and few new readers (until the next generation discovers Potter), it may wither and die. Or the magic may sustain it&#8211;the fandom could survive, though it will be different. Right now, all anybody knows is that the clock on the fandom as we know it is ticking, and we&#8217;re clinging on to every second.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=331&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting against spoilers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2007/07/18/fighting_against_spoilers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spoilers are the greatest fear for many Harry Potter fans. They&#8217;ve waited so long to get the final book, and they can&#8217;t bear to hear a word about it unless it&#8217;s from Jo Rowling herself. But the book has, of course, started to leak. Pictures abound of a mysterious man holding what he claims to be a copy of the book; rumors fly of the UK press publishing reports on spoilers that contain said spoilers; and every day there is a new, panicked, post about some corner of the world which has suddenly become unsafe. As a result, it seems that half of the fandom has retreated into what is quickly becoming known as the cave &#8211; a dark, scary place where almost all internet sites are unheard of, newspapers are read (if at all) with squinted eyes, and the television and radio stay silent. These people are determined to stay pure, at any cost. The other half of the fandom, however, is fighting. Fighting against spoilers, and against those people who want to take the magic out of Harry Potter. On The Leaky Cauldron, Jo&#8217;s Army has been formed (named in honor of Dumbledore&#8217;s Army, the rebel group from the books.) Jo&#8217;s Army has the ability to make any post on the site invisible, and its troops patrol the forums ceaselessly, threatening to send any spoilers to every &#8220;Jolawyer we can think of.&#8221; (Leaky&#8217;s official spoiler policy has won praise from Jo Rowling on her web site) The result: spoilers are posted, of course. But they are removed within minutes, seconds even. For those people who choose to remain out in the light for these last days before everything changes, they can do so with some confidence that they will be surprised on July 21. As for me, I regard my position as in-between. I&#8217;m still frequenting many sites, but have filtered out of my daily trawl those that could, whether intentionally or accidentally, spoil me. I&#8217;m still reading the New York Times, but any article relating to Harry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=328&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What will happen to Harry?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2007/07/17/what_will_happen_to_harry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name&#8217;s Gina Elliott, and I&#8217;m a Harry Potter fan. A massive Harry Potter fan. In fact, I work at a Harry Potter fan site, The Leaky Cauldron. I&#8217;m part of a volunteer staff of over two hundred people, all of whom work tirelessly to create the best Harry Potter experience possible for the millions of fans who devour each new book. Obviously, I&#8217;m surrounded by Harry Potter on a daily basis. When I&#8217;m not listening to Harry Potter podcasts or reading the books again, I&#8217;m discussing them with fellow fans, coming up with crazy theories and just living and breathing the Harry Potter fandom. But this week is even more intense. With the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, coming out on Friday at midnight, my week is completely devoted to the boy wizard. I just returned from dinner with another Leaky Cauldron staff member, on Thursday I will be going to a Wizard Rock concert (with bands such as Harry and the Potters and Draco and the Malfoys), and on Friday night I will go to not one, but two Deathly Hallows release parties. But all of that will end at midnight, when I will put in my earphones (to avoid any spoilers), grab my book, and race home as fast as I can. A popular topic of conversation on the Potter websites these days is how quickly you will read the book. Most people reckon they will read through the night, and emerge on Saturday evening, exhausted but finished. Others, like me, think it should be savored a bit more&#8230; I&#8217;m planning on finishing sometime on Sunday. Any longer seems almost unfathomable for those of us who have been waiting almost ten years to find out what happens to Harry. So throughout this crazy, Potter-filled week, I will be updating you on what is happening in the Harry Potter fandom&#8211;the emotions and fears of those of us looking at Friday night with a mixture of pure excitement and absolute dread for the end of an<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=326&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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