Did you ever wish that Harry Potter was real? Well it kind of is.

Harry and his friends start a student activist group called Dumbledore’s Army when the adults and politicians of their world fail to address the concerns of the day. The Harry Potter Alliance is a Dumbledore’s Army for the real world.

Just as Dumbledore’s Army wakes the world up to Voldemort’s return, works for equal rights of house elves and werewolves, and empowers its members, we:

• Work with partner NGOs in alerting the world to the dangers of global warming, poverty, and genocide.
• Work with our partners for equal rights regardless of race, gender, and sexuality.
• Encourage our members to hone the magic of their creativity in endeavoring to make the world a better place.

JK Rowling praised our mission In a 2007 Time Magazine interview where

“When asked about the group, Rowling practically levitates off the couch, spilling her coffee along the way.”

She later says on her web site: “I am honoured and humbled that Harry’s name has been given to such an extraordinary campaign, which really does exemplify the values for which Dumbledore’s Army fought in the books.”

Successes
We continue to astound our many partner NGO’s as the commitment of our membership has enabled us to:

• Raise funds to protect thousands of civilians in Darfur and Burma.
• Donate over 14,000 books across the world, including 4,000 to a youth village in Rwanda.
• Increase Mass Equality’s calls to Maine voters to protect marriage equality by over 1200% in one day with over 3500 calls
• Produce and distribute hundreds of videos, the best of which were used at the closing ceremonies of the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide in the Rwanda capital Kigali
• Empower our partner anti-genocide group STAND with a 40% increase in high school chapter sign-ups and a 52% increase in calls to 1-800-GENOCIDE during a two-week campaign
• Register over 900 first-time voters during our Wizard Rock the Vote campaign in 2008
• Produce a podcast on Darfur that was downloaded over 120,000 times
• Gather over three quarters of the 10,000 signatures that the UK based Aegis Trust sent to the UN Security Council concerning Darfur
• Prepare tens of thousands of student leaders to face the global challenges of ending genocide, equal rights, environmental protection, media reform, fair trade, and more!

In the mean time, we are creating the blueprint for a new kind of civic engagement that combines pop culture, social change, and new media that amplifies each voice hundreds of thousands of times.