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Events
Storyville
Alivans
An authentic Alivan's Wand is far more than the run of the mill magic wand. By choosing an Alivan's Wand you are saying that only the best will do...and your wand will be of the highest quality available...anywhere. Our Master Wandmakers create one-of-a-kind, numbered wands crafted from a solid block of only the finest hardwoods. Each magic wand is housed in an Alivan's Collector's box and comes complete with a velvet wand satchel and a Certificate of Authenticity. Don't settle for just any wand. Be sure your wand is an authentic Alivan's Wand...and remember our magic wands work for good spells only!
Overture Dinner
Listening Library, a division of Random House, Inc.
Listening Library was founded in 1955 by Anthony and Helen Ditlow in their home. When they started the business they used a spare bedroom to store records and process and ship orders. Much has changed in the ensuing 50 years and today Listening Library is part of the Random House Audio Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Under the supervision of founders' son, Tim Ditlow, Listening Library remains the premier publisher of unabridged audiobooks for children and young adults. The last 50 years have brought myriad technological changes, including the introduction of the CD and downloadable formats, digital recording and editing capabilities, and more. Yet, one thing remains the same: Listening Library's core commitment to producing the best books—new and old—as top-quality, flawless recordings to be enjoyed by audiences of all ages today and for the next 50 years. Listening Library has over 500 titles available, including some featuring such popular characters as Arthur, Ramona, Amber Brown, Junie B., and Harry Potter, and written by such authors as Judy Blume, Gary Paulsen, Mary Pope Osborne, Beverly Cleary, and Philip Pullman.
Riverside Quidditch Classic
Borders, Inc.
Throughout its stores around the world, Borders is finding new ways to help customers create richer and more satisfying lives through knowledge and entertainment and to connect with the books, music and movies that help shape and define us all. Borders is a subsidiary of Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) a $4 billion retailer of books, music, movies and stationery items that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BGP. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Borders Group, through its subsidiaries, operates more than 1,300 Borders and Waldenbooks stores and employs more than 34,000 people worldwide who serve more than 30 million customers each year.
Artists and Authors Night
FictionAlley - Creativity is Magic!
FictionAlley was founded in the summer of 2001 by a dozen Harry Potter fans — mostly fanfiction writers and artists — as an archive for Harry Potter fanfiction; the site hosts any story with reasonably good grammar and spelling as long as it does not merit an adults-only rating. Since 2001, the site has grown to include over ten thousand stories and chapters by thousands of writers, as well as thousands of fan-generated artworks, hundreds of fan-films, and now, a beta project of audio recordings of fanfiction. In May of 2006, FictionAlley launched SpellCast, a podcast by, for and about Harry Potter fans and the things they make, do, create, learn and discuss.
Quidditch Teams
Alivan's Winged Lions
Alivan’s Master Wandmakers
Master wandmakers of the highest order, Alivan's creates one-of-a-kind, numbered wands crafted from a solid block of only the finest hard woods.
Betas Anonymous Punctuation Pixies
Betas Anonymous
Betas Anonymous is an online discussion group for editors of Harry Potter fanfiction.
Borders Potion Masters
Borders, Inc.
Borders, Inc., comprised of more than 1,300 Borders and Waldenbooks stores, is a worldwide retailer of books, music, movies, and stationery items.
Knight 62442 Werewolves
Knight Family
The Knight family is known throughout the wizarding world for their charitable work and their research into alleviating werewolvian tendencies.
Owl Appreciation Society Fighting Owls
Owl Appreciation Society
The Owl Appreciation Society is the socially acceptable pseudonym for a fierce band of fighting warriors.
Pontchartrain Pirates
World Confederation of Pirates and Ninja
The World Confederation of Pirates and Ninja is a group bound by ancient ninja and pirate codes of friendship.
Shrieking Shack Marauders
The Shrieking Shack
The Shrieking Shack, founded in December, 2002, as a geocities site, now boasts not only its own domain, but news, discussion, a gallery, site challenges and more.
Whimsic Alley Sea Serpents
Whimsic Alley
Whimsic Alley, established in 1367, prides itself on being "a shopping haven for wizards of distinction."
Lagniappe
Horcrux Hunt
The Harry/Ginny OTP Newsletter
The Sue March
General
The Leaky Cauldron
The Leaky Cauldron, now also available at http://www.leakynews.com/, is an all-purpose site for the Harry Potter enthusiast. It started in 2000 as a badly designed one-page roll of news; it has now turned into a destination for fan entertainment and discussion, and has become the Harry Potter site of record, hosting the oldest and most comprehensive Potter news archive on the Web.
