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Jason Isaacs Takes Part In Harry Potter Fundraiser For The British Red Cross

Apr 25, 2021

Posted by: Jacob Hoggan

Actor Interviews, Charity, HP Cast, Interviews, Isaacs, Isaacs Interviews, News

Harry Potter baddie Jason Isaacs (perhaps better known to fans as Lucius Malfoy) recently helped out with a charity fundraiser with the British Red Cross.   The fundraiser, a Harry Potter-themed quiz, raised an impressive £57,000 ($78,635.87 U.S.). According to the Red Cross’s website, some of the prizes that winners could have won were: “A …read more!

Support Fan Organizations This Giving Tuesday!

Dec 01, 2020

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Charity, Fan Activism, Fan Creators, Fandom, Fans, News

It’s Giving Tuesday again, which means it’s time to take a look at all the brilliant organizations within the fan community helping to make the world a better place, and consider giving your money, time and resources to these organizations to help them make an even greater impact! 1. The Harry Potter Alliance The Harry …read more!

Harry Potter Cast Members Join uWin’s ‘Wonderful Wizarding Quiz’ For Charity!

Nov 09, 2020

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Charity, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Felton, HP Cast, Lewis, Lynch, Movies, News, Phelps, Radcliffe, Wright

Harry Potter cast members will be taking part in a “Wonderful Wizarding Quiz” (a Harry Potter themed virtual quiz!), fundraising for three brilliant charities, thanks to uWin! Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), David Holmes (Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom), James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley) and Bonnie …read more!

Fall into Democracy with The Harry Potter Alliance!

Oct 10, 2020

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Charity, Events, Fan Events, Fandom, Fans, News

Election Day is coming up fast in the U.S., and The Harry Potter Alliance are doing all they can to ensure people are heard. During such a pivotal time in global and national politics, it’s crucial that people turn out to vote, so here are a few initiatives you can get involved in before November …read more!

INTERVIEW: Harry Potter Alliance’s Granger Leadership Academy is Shaping the Next Decade of Activism

Jul 09, 2020

Posted by: Gianfranco Lentini

Charity, Fan Events, Fandom, Fans, News

This year’s Granger Leadership Academy is weeks away! For the first-time ever the annual conference for fan activism will be going virtual on July 17-19. Read more in this interview with Janae Phillips, Conference Organizer of the GLA, and Director of Leadership & Education at the HPA.

Black Girls Create Hosting Harry Potter Trivia To Educate Fans & Support Diverse Activist Organisations

Jun 03, 2020

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Charity, Education, Events, Fandom, Fans, News

Black Girls Create will host a Harry Potter Trivia fundraiser with CosQuiz Trivia next Friday, June 12, donating all proceeds to Campaign Zero, a policy-based solution organisation dedicated to ending police brutality, and The National Bailout Fund, which provides support for incarcerated protestors. If you want to know more about Black Girls Create, a hub for Black …read more!

Accio Pride! Welcome PRIDE Month With The Harry Potter Alliance

May 31, 2020

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Charity, Fan Events, Fandom, Fans, News

Accio Pride! Covid-19 means many PRIDE parades and events have been cancelled or postponed, so our friends over at the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) are launching an online Small Things Con: PRIDE series, June 1- 7. UPDATED: 19:19pm EST, May 31: Small Things Con: PRIDE has been postponed in solidarity with Black organizers, please read …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Chapter 8: ‘The Potions Master’ Read by Alia Bhatt & Alec Baldwin, Virtual ‘Harry Potter’ Reunions & More!

May 31, 2020

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Audio, Bradley, Branagh, Charity, Events, Felton, Films, Fogler, Harry Potter Round-Up, Honors/Awards, Misc, Movies, News, Pattinson, Phelps, Poesy, Round-Up, Shaw, Tennant, Thompson

This was a special week in the Wizarding World when fans around the globe, who are always clamouring for new material from J.K. Rowling, were delighted by the expansion of the author’s literary universe with the release of a new children’s fairytale The Ickabog. Several chapters are being released each day for two weeks with a print …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: New ‘Tenet’ Trailer, Imelda Staunton Hosts Charity Quiz

May 24, 2020

Posted by: Becki Osborne

Actor Interviews, Branagh, Charity, Conventions, Depp, Events, Fan Events, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Felton, Films, Films - Trailers, Fun, Fun - Games, Harry Potter Round-Up, HP Cast, Interviews, Isaacs, Isaacs Interviews, Kravitz, Kravitz Interviews, Melling, Movies, News, Pattinson, Phelps, Poesy, Producers, Radcliffe, Redmayne, Round-Up, Staunton, Television Programmes, Tennant, Thewlis, Trailers, Wright

Summer is around the corner for much of the globe and things are heating up in the Wizarding World. This week Playbill announced the popular off-Broadway Harry Potter parody Puffs will broadcast on their streaming service, the Wizarding World released chapters five and six of Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone read aloud by Evanna Lynch, Bonnie Wright, Simon …read more!

Theater Round-Up: Noma Dumezweni Reads Chapter 2 of ‘Philosopher’s Stone,’ James Snyder Available for Cameos and More!

May 11, 2020

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Broadway, Charity, Fandom, Fans, Fun, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne, News, Round-Up, Television Programmes, Tennant, Theater, Theater Round-Up, West End

In this week’s theater news, Noma Dumezweni follows Harry Potter himself to read Chapter 2 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as part of the Harry Potter at Home initiative, joining the fast-growing ranks of at-home initiatives and campaigns to maintain interaction with fans in the midst of social distancing. The Cursed Child cast …read more!



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