Saturday, October 3, 2015

Attention wizarding folk and muggles!

By Lisa Goudy

It hardly feels like a month since my sister Meghan and I were in Toronto for Fan Expo Canada.

While there, we had a blast at the convention and visiting our cousin. You can read more about our experience in my Moose Jaw Times-Herald column, Mischief managed at Fan Expo Canada.

As any Harry Potter fan could have guessed by the title of my column, we are massive Harry Potter fans. From the minute we first began to read the first book of seven in the series by J.K. Rowling, we were pulled into that magical world, a realm we have never truly left. 

This fascination continued with the release of the eight Harry Potter films starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. The last book was split into two movies and we love all of them to pieces.

Four Harry Potter stars were in Toronto for the pop culture convention that ran from Sept. 3 to Sept. 6 - Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley). We had the pleasure of meeting them all and sitting in on their panels. They were all so friendly and it was a dream come true to meet them. It was a dream come true.

If you want to read more in-depth about the Harry Potter experience, check out MuggleNet's article, Fan Expo Canada 2015: Potter stars visit Toronto. You can glean some unique tidbits that we heard in person at all of the panels and see some great photos.

And don't forget to keep scrolling down the article until you get to the photos of Hogwarts cosplayers. I cosplayed as a Gryffindor student and my sister cosplayed as a Slytherin student and our photo is featured on the site. Our photo is in the first row in the second placement.

Until next time, "Nox."

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