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  Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom

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  Kelly Stringer Independent

  November 15, 2010

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  Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom harry potter fandom death Curator's Note Death is a core theme in the Harry Potter series. From the unseen murders that precede the first book’s opening lines to the many deaths that cl ...
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  CONFRONTING DEATH AND MATURING

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  Todd Waters University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

  Monday, November 15, 2010 — 10:57 pm

  series progresses, Harry begins to understand and confront the grief losing parents can have, even on ... a child too young to truly remember them. As kids who have lost parents mature, they begin to understand ...
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  One thing I love about

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  Kelly Stringer Independent

  Monday, November 15, 2010 — 11:45 pm

  an orphan at the beginning of the book because their parents died years ago) or have a direct ...
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  Beginning of the End

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  Sean Geoghegan Cardiff University

  Tuesday, November 16, 2010 — 4:03 pm

  And of course we now have the series itself drawing to a close and a different kind of death. The end of the franchise akin to a family member being diagnosed with an incurable illness. Is their hope that the subject (text) can be saved? Would it be fair ...
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  Transmedia Recipes? Consuming Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice and Everyflavor Beans

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  Lisa Schmidt Bishop's University

  November 17, 2010

  11 comments

  manifest fictions, vids or artwork on their own time and in their own way, people are beginning to produce ...
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  Harry Potter and the Satanic Specters: The Franchise as Seen Through its Religious Metaliterature

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  November 18, 2010

  4 comments

  begin with the 65 works easily identified in Worldcat, or with the 14 works in the slideshow at right ...
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  A Disabling Environment

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  Katie Ellis Murdoch University

  November 29, 2010

  2 comments

  the wheelchair users. When the visitors begin injuring their heads they are pathologized and prevented ...
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  Interesting post

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  Bill Kirkpatrick Denison University

  Monday, November 29, 2010 — 10:28 pm

  their  disabling impact on the lived environment visible, how do we begin to help students challenge the ...
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  The Flourish

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  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  December 06, 2010

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  history (it began sooner if you count Fluxus), we are beginning to consider the designers of games to be ... to even the odds for themselves. We call a game a sport when we begin to recognize its players, not ...
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  The rhetoric of fairness

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  Ken McAllister University of Arizona

  Monday, December 6, 2010 — 6:13 pm

  Fighter, at least, though less so in the metaphorical game of life. One interesting (and potentially ...

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