Everyone in my house has gone to Walmart for a Harry Potter book party.

[rug]

I am obstinately reading DU.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Walmart?

:rofl::rofl:

[rug]

2. I have failed my children.

:(

[Orsino]

3. Isn't that like...

...well. Words fail me.

Isn't the commercial-fascist Home of Cheap Plastic Crap the very antithesis of Hogwarts' magic?

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Maybe, but it's the perfect venue for

the Nothing-In-History-Has-Been-Hyped-This-Much HP phenomenon.

[Ian David]

5. The Harry Potter Alliance: Sign up and Get Involved

About Us

Did you ever wish that Harry Potter was real? Well it kind of is. After all, both our worlds face "dark and difficult times”:

* Genocide, Poverty, AIDS, and Global Warming are ignored by our media and governments the way Voldemort's return is ignored by the Ministry and Daily Prophet.

* People are still discriminated against based on sexuality, race, class, religion, gender, ethnicity, and religion just as the Wizarding World continues to discriminate against Centaurs, Giants, House Elves, Half-Bloods, Muggle borns, Squibs, and Muggles

* Our governments continue to respond to terror by torturing prisoners (often without trial) just as Sirius Black was tortured by dementors with no trial

* A Muggle Mindset pervades over our culture…a mindset that values being “perfectly normal, thank you very much” over being interesting, original, loving, and creative

So Harry’s world is not very different than ours. And just as in his world, Dumbledore will remain here as long as there are those that are loyal to him. As long as there are those that are aware that the weapon we have is love and that more than ever, it’s time to use that weapon.

And so the HP Alliance is dedicated to bringing together Harry Potter fans from everywhere to spread love and fight the Dark Arts in the real world and we need your help!

Help us replace the Dark Arts with love. Help us build the real Dumbledore's Army. Help us create an Alliance in the name of Harry Potter.

Sign up and Get Involved

The HP Alliance is always growing and looking for more people to help it do so (on a volunteer basis). Any one who wants to contact the HPA should write Andrew at [e-mail]. Please send us all relevant experience, and whatever clips, resumes, examples, etc., you would like to send. If you have applied and not heard back, please be patient; we have received your application and will get to it as soon as possible. With EVERY application, please be sure to send in links to relative sites showing examples of your work; if you have attachments you'd like to send, mention it in the email and someone will get back to you about them. All current volunteers at the HP Alliance are welcome to apply if they seek to switch tracks. Thank you so much for your interest!

http://www.thehpalliance.org/involved.html

See also:

The Harry Potter Alliance: Sign up and Get Involved
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=30985&mesg_id=30985