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A native of Chicago, Kate recently completed her Masters degree for Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Although she hovered around the fringes of the online fandom for years, Kate did not join the HPA Staff until early 2008. She does a little bit of everything at the HPA. You can find more about her from her bitingly-witty and tragically-neglected blog.

The Harry Potter Alliance won $250,000 from Chase Community Giving

July 13, 2010 9 Comments

The Harry Potter Alliance has won first place in the the Chase Community Giving Challenge, which means we have won $250,000. Voting ended on Monday at 11:59pm EST. It was a tense and crazy night, but we did it. Thanks to everyone who voted and supported us! We’ll have more info soon, but for now [...]

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The HPA will soon be in 2nd place, but not if you help.

July 11, 2010 3 Comments

The Harry Potter Alliance is in serious danger of losing its first place position in the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. There is less than 1 day, and 10 hours left in the contest, and the 2nd place charity is currently gaining 1,000 new votes per hour! At this rate, this organization will overtake [...]

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Reminder! The Final Battle begins TODAY, at 12:00pm EST

July 10, 2010 1 Comment

Be there at our livestream: http://wwww.livestream.com/sayaha as we gather together to fight the Final Battle of Hogwarts to win $250,000 for The Harry Potter Alliance.  12:00pm EST. See you all there!

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The Final Battle to win $250,000 begins Tomorrow, 12pm EST

July 9, 2010 8 Comments

Join us tomorrow in our offices, in our Room of Requirement, where the final battle to win $250,000 for The Harry Potter Alliance commences. There is less than 3 days left of the Chase Community Giving competition; we are in the last stretch and with your help, we will see this through until the end [...]

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The Owl endorses The Harry Potter Alliance… we think.

July 9, 2010 3 Comments

A very special and influential Harry Potter Fandom star has given his official endorsement of HPAFTW! Check it out: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCwty0eXoY] If you’ve already voted (and most of you have), go and ask a friend to vote! Thank you to Harry and the Potters!

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Harry Potter Alliance supporters on YouTube

July 7, 2010 Leave a comment

There are quite a few videos about the Chase Community Giving Contest cropping up on YouTube from supporters of The Harry Potter Alliance.  Here are just a few of them (including one from wizard rocker Lauren Fairweather of FiveAwesomeGirls): [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOOrbLTiV-E] [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bplCy_IQApk] [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILEu8eE9Ux0] Go comment, subscribe, and support! Found more videos? Leave the links in the [...]

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Be a part of HPA's SECRET PLAN – Tomorrow noon EST

July 7, 2010 Leave a comment

The Harry Potter Alliance is enacting a  super secret plan tomorrow, July 8th at Noon EST and throughout the rest of the day. And we’re inviting everyone who is able to join us. Head over to our livestream at 12:00pm EST to participate in our secret project!

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Join us, Alex Day, and Shawn Ahmed at 9pm EST July 6th!

July 5, 2010 2 Comments

There is only one week left of the Chase Community Giving competition on Facebook. We are currently in second place, and we need your help to get all the way to first so that The Harry Potter Alliance can win $250,000! We are having NIGHTLY livestreams at 9pm EST every single day until the end [...]

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John Green encourages Nerfighteria to vote, and we thank him!

July 5, 2010 Leave a comment

Our good friend John Green, the noted vlogbrother of Nerdfighteria, has posted a new video that features the Harry Potter Alliance in the Chase Community Giving Contest. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKrs3IngoE] A huge heartfelt thank you from everyone at The Harry Potter Alliance! Thank you John Green!

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Livestream at noon EST; One week left to win $250K!

July 5, 2010 1 Comment

There is officially only one week left of the Chase Community Giving competition, and the Harry Potter Alliance needs your help! We remain at third place, and other organizations behind us are catching up fast. Hosted by Andrew Slack, with occasional mystery surprise guests, join us at our “offices” (aka our Livestream Channel) Monday July [...]

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