[Publib] A Harry Potter Convention?

[Donna Block]

My inner nerd is both allured and appalled...

 

(taken from the Sun-Times)

 

Wizards in the Windy City: 

Harry Potter fans scout out sites for conference, Quidditch 

December 4, 2006

BY Dave <mailto:dnewbart at suntimes.com>  Newbart Staff Reporter

 

Amy Tenbrink stared out over the football field from a skybox on the
lakefront and mused, "How cool would it be to have Quidditch at Soldier
Field?" 

Very cool, agreed the rest in the tour group -- eight women wearing
scarves and neckties and other elements of dress popular with the
witches and wizards made famous in the Harry Potter book series. 

Tenbrink, 30, a Denver lawyer, is the lead organizer of a weeklong Harry
Potter-themed conference planned for Chicago in August 2008. Her group
visited Chicago over the weekend to scope venues and hammer out details
for the conference. 

They expect as many as 1,500 Harry Potter fanatics from around the world
to descend on Chicago like it was Diagon Alley, the bustling street
known only to the wizarding community in author J.K. Rowling's fictional
London...

Read the rest of the article here: 
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/158970,CST-NWS-potter04.article
<http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/158970,CST-NWS-potter04.article> 

 

 

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