Portus Announces Snapefest and Registration Discount

Calling all Snape fans! Portus 2008 has released their monthly newsletter and has news that there will be a special Snapefest day during the Harry Potter conference to be held next summer in Dallas, Texas. This Snapefest will include “presentations, roundtable discussions, panels, trivia contests, competitions, displays of fan art and videos and costume fashion shows.” Snapefest is open only to registered Portus attendees who are 21 years of age at no additional cost. You can find out more about this special event to honor Professor Severus Snape via this link.

Also, if you are interested in attending Portus 2008, you can take advantage of a special discount in registration by using the code “TURKEY” when signing up for the event (link here), and this discount is only good this weekend (November 23, 24 and 25th). Additional announcements include the naming of the Saturday Keynote Speaker, Monique Trottier who was the Internet marketing manager at Raincoast, the Canadian publishers of the Harry Potter novels. Finally, there is to be a Podcast Palooza featuring an evening of Harry Potter related podcasts.