lumos!

the big harry potter convo is on in vegas! i am sponsoring one of the discussion panels. lumos is very interesting because it is not simply a fan-fic or role-play convo. a lot of the people who put it on and attend it are college professors and other school teachers who are way into using h.p. as a teaching book for literature and sometimes ethics, gender-construction or spirituality. very interesting. i first found out about all this when they had a convo in salem mass. -- where i make pilgrimige at least once a year. i didn't make it to the h.p. thing, but i started tracking their yearly events. the website for lumos is http://lumos2006.org/ - it is full and running this year, but folks may want to become aware of it. it seems to be growing and i believe it will continue as an annual convo. plus it's just fun to picture all those elementary school teachers and goth, fan-fic slashers, crackers, and shippers holding forth in joint discussion panels. muggles, beware!