Weekly Wrap-up: June 7-13

WWDD

A huge majority of posts on the Common Room this week are part of our What Would Dumbledore Do? project. What is WWDD? Find out here. Want to get involved? Join our Common Room! And be sure to check out what others have learned from Dumbledore at this link.

NEWS

This past Wednesday we had our first WWDD UStream meeting, and it was amazing to hear your insights about Dumbledore. Afterwards, Andrew read some rough draft passages from a book he’s working on in a segment we like to call “Late Night Snack with Andrew Slack.” 

MUSIC

Patrick E. Fleming has written an amazing filk called “What Would Dumbledore Do?” You can read the lyrics on his blog post or listen to it in the music section of his profile.

BLOGS

• Taekia Blackwell describes an awesome event made especially magical by the wizard rock band Stupefy’d. http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/check-out-this-wizard-rock
• Chan shares a song she wrote in honor of the Half Blood Prince release next month. http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ill-wait
• Chan describes the process of writing a fan fiction with friend and fellow writer Rae Carson, and how it has helped their frienship grow. She also shares a chapter with us. http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-prophesy-renewed-chapter-1
• Ning user theotherhermit talks about some common misapprehensions about recycling, and how recycling, while a good thing, may not be the solution that we think it is. http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/recycling-revisited
  
• Hope calls attention to the hateful and abusive comments of hosts on the May 28th segment of KRXQ 98.5 FM Sacramento’s Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning radio talk show as they verbally attacked the transgender community, specifically gender dysphoric children. http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/this-infuriated-me
• Vanessa talks about how important it is to donate to organizations such as StandFast, and how gratifying it is to know that the money really does help save lives. http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/alive-because-of-me

VIDEOS

• No New Stuff participants posted their videos this week
• Check out the music videos “Hogwarts” and “You Are Lurking There” from the band Harry Potter and the Lightning Bolts.
• All videos can be viewed at http://thehpalliance.ning.com/video or http://www.youtube.com/thehpalliance.

PHOTOS

Check out WWDD photos in two albums now: WWDD and WWDD2.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Keep an eye out this week for another WWDD UStream meeting. We will update the site with more information when we have it!
• June 30th marks the launch of the Top 100 Lessons from WWDD, as well as more information on our partnership with the Love in the Sky project.
• Azkatraz is coming (July 17-21)!  All proceeds from the Wrock Around the Rock event will be divided between the Harry Potter Alliance and Amnesty International. To register or find out more, click here.

If you are a Chapter Organizer and would like to send us an update, we’ll put it in the Weekly Wrap-up so everyone can know what you’re doing. Please e-mail us at grace@thehpalliance.org or hope@thehpalliance.org.

See you in a week!