Would you like to share your memories our cons – including Nimbus – 2003, Portus or Infinitus – in an upcoming newsletter, on the Ascendio website, or at Ascendio? Send up to 200 words-per-HPEF-con to us at pr@hp2012.org or compress them into a tweet to @HPEF, and we’ll share them in the lead-up to this summer, and at the con in July. To kick us off, longtime attendee Valerie Frankel, author of Henry Potty and the Pet Rock and Katniss the Cattail: An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, shared this memory:
I love that Harry Potter cons aren’t insular. So many costumers, fanfic writers, and artists branch out and create beautiful things for Firefly, Game of Thrones, and other fandoms. In fact, at my last Potter con, I led the Harry Potter + Buffy panel, packed with cheering fans who’d made incredibly brilliant connections between the two series. This summer I’m going back, this time to speak about The Hunger Games, and I’m not at all surprised the talk was accepted. The truth is, fans who are enthusiastic enough readers to dive so deeply into Harry have enough love for lots of series. And that’s where the real magic lies…
