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The magical world of Harry Potter includes several different types of people. It ranges from young children to mature adults. It has easily spread all over the globe, and has blown up so much that people all around the world have integrated the world of Harry Potter in their lives. These people that are a “part” of the world of Harry Potter dress up like the characters from the movies. Whenever a new book came out, they would stand in front of the bookstores for long hours at a time, dressed as a Harry Potter character. The same with the movies, whenever a new movie would come out, the tickets were sold out fairly quickly. Through the years, the fan base has only grown into massive numbers. The first book of the Harry Potter series was published …show more content…
A member of the Potter Fan Forum (PFF), Cora Ticum stated “I agree with Lindsay and Bren that it 's never too late to discover Harry Potter. It 's a timeless story that is already a classic and will be read for decades if not centuries to come. Of course all the craze about the series is less than 5-10 years ago, but that 's because the main book series and its film adaptations are done. Although this year HP is more in the news again as there is the new Cursed Child story and the Fantastic Beasts film and Pottermore has also released new information over the years.” The Harry Potter phenomenon is a craze that has been integrated in the lives of various types of people, making it a discourse community and the use can be seen through the online forums such as …show more content…
The forum uses the words like Pukwudgie and everyday words to describe wands, which are taken from the Pottermore website. The Pukwudgie is one of the four houses for Illvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a wand chooses the owner due to their personality. For example, the wand that is Fir Wood says that a person has staying power, strength of purpose, is focused, strong-minded, and sometimes intimidating. (Potter Fan Forum: Wand Characteristics, n.d.) A person who is not a huge fan of Harry Potter would not know this. They would be lost in a conversation if it were ever brought up. The use of this particular vocabulary distinguishes the people that are from this particular community from the ones who are not. The online discourse community of Harry Potter is very complex. There are thousands of different websites that dedicate themselves to the world of Harry Potter. They each have their own characteristics that fall under discourse community. The community has their own views. They use the forums, games, websites, fanfiction, etc. to show the impact that the Harry Potter series has had on them. They go to these places to share their feelings with other people who feel the same way they do and share their connection to Harry

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