Amanda Firestone is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa. Her research focuses on the heroine's coming-of-age in Young Adult Literature. Leisa A. Clark is a professor of arts and humanities, teaching diverse class subjects such as art history, media studies, and film history. She is the author of a variety of books, ranging from fictional comedic space opera to critical edited collections. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Acknowledgments

Preface (Leisa A. Clark)

Wizarding Whirled: An Introduction

(Amanda Firestone with Leisa A. Clark)

I.¿The Great Hall: Fan Spaces and Places

The (Virtual) Race for House Cup Glory: Hogwarts Running

Club and the Journey to #SoMuchGood (Amanda Firestone)

Fiber Fiction: How Two Different Affinity Spaces Developed into Another Potter World (Gail A. Bondi)

Magic Goes Muggle: Inclusiveness in Quidditch as a "Spin-Off"

­Practice (Alena Brunner)

Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter: A Primer

in Contemporary Media Concepts (Carissa Ann Baker)

It's Real for (All of) Us: Wizard Rock and the Audience as ­Co-Creator (Anne Collins Smith)

II.¿The Forbidden Forest: Marginalized Outsiders

Inferior Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Shrinking

of Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws to Fit Gendered Space (Elise Payne)

Fitting Him for Leather Trousers: Fanon and the Reclamation

of Draco Malfoy and Slytherin House (Kali DeDominicis)

"Witches live among us!" The Minorities Battle Prejudice

in Fantastic Beasts (Valerie Estelle Frankel)

Fantastic ­Non-Wizard Entities and How to Other Them: Representations of the Other in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Haley Herfurth and Clair McLafferty)

Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child (Emily E. Roach)

III.¿The Professors' Lounge: Creating Cultural Connection

Gaining the ­Grown-Up Perspective in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Tara Moore)

The Cloak of Many Canons: Establishing ­Cross-Contextual

­Canonicity After Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Katelynn E. Carver)

Of Memes and Muggles: Harry Potter, Facebook and the 2016 ­Presidential Campaign in the United States (Björn Sundmark)

Who Tells Me Where I Ought to Be? The Sorting Community ­Hogwarts Is Home and Pottermore (Jonathan A. Rose)

Muggles and Magic in America: Cultural Appropriation, Authorial Intent and Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Leisa A. Clark)

Epilogue: A Note of Caution Amid a Chorus of Praise for the ­Ever-Expanding Potterverse (Mary F. Pharr)

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