Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse

Synopsis

This Collection Of New Essays Interprets The Wizarding World Beyond The Books And Films Through The Lens Of Convergence Culture. Contributors Explore How Online Communities Tackle Sorting And Games Like The Quidditch Cup And The Triwizard Tournament, And Analyze How Fantastic Beasts And Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Are Changing Fandom And The Canon Alike-- Preface / Leisa A. Clark -- Wizarding Whirled: An Introduction / Amanda Firestone With Leisa A. Clark. Part I. The Great Hall: Fan Spaces And Places. The (virtual) Race For House Cup Glory: Hogwarts Running Club And The Journey To #somuchgood / Amanda Firestone -- Fiber Fiction: How Two Different Affinity Spaces Developed Into Another Potter World / Gail A. Bond -- Magic Goes Muggle: Inclusiveness In Quidditch As A “spin-off” Practice / Alena Brunner -- Universal’s Wizarding World Of Harry Potter: A Primer In Contemporary Media Concepts / Carissa Ann Baker -- It’s Real For (all Of) Us: Wizard Rock And The Audience As Co-creator / Anne Collins Smith. Part Ii. the Forbidden Forest: Marginalized Outsiders. Inferior Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Shrinking Of Hufflepuffs And Ravenclaws To Fit Gendered Space / Elise Payne -- Fitting Him For Leather Trousers: Fanon And The Reclamation Of Draco Malfoy And Slytherin House / Kali Dedominicis -- “witches Live Among Us!” The Minorities Battle Prejudice In Fantastic Beasts / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Fantastic Non-wizard Entities And How To Other Them: Representations Of The Other In Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them / Haley Herfurth And Clair Mclafferty -- Harry Potter And The Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping And The Cursed Child / Emily E. Roach. Part Iii. The Professors’ Lounge: Creating Cultural Connection Gaining The Grown-up Perspective In Harry Potter And The Cursed Child / Tara Moore -- The Cloak Of Many Canons: Establishing Cross-contextual Canonicity After Harry Potter And The Cursed Child / Katelynn E. Carver -- Of Memes And Muggles: Harry Potter, Facebook And The 2016 Presidential Campaign In The United States / Björn Sundmark -- Who Tells Me Where I Ought To Be? The Sorting Community Hogwarts Is Home And Pottermore / Jonathan A. Rose -- Muggles And Magic In America: Cultural Appropriation, Authorial Intent And Ilvermorny School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry / Leisa A. Clark. Epilogue. A Note Of Caution Amid A Chorus Of Praise For The Ever-expanding Potterverse / Mary F. Pharr. Edited By Amanda Firestone And Leisa A. Clark. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.