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Harry Potter and the Sins of the Parents
Program Code:
1010
Date:
Monday, July 20, 2009
Time:
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
EST
PANELIST
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Sarah lives in Las Vegas, NV and is going to be starting her junior year at the Community College High School of Southern Nevada. She has loved Harry Potter for as long as she can remember, and has been obsessed for the past two years. She goes to MuggleNet every day after school and can’t wait to download the next episode of MuggleCast. She attended Lumos 2006 and enjoyed every minute of it. Besides Harry Potter, Sarah also loves American Idol and is a huge fan of Jordin, Katharine, Carrie, and of course, Kelly Clarkson. She is also mourning the loss of Gilmore Girls on TV and glad that she got to visit Stars Hollow last year at Warner Bros Studio. Sarah also loves animals, especially her dog, Noah. She loves to theorize about Harry Potter and won 1st place in a Forensics’ tournament with her expository speech on MuggleCast.
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Ray Almand
Emma Drummond
Jennifer Campbell
Description
Harry spent a large part of the series finding father figures to look up to and emulate before becoming disenchanted and growing beyond them. Yet if we look at the series, Harry was hardly the only character to have issues with his parents or parental figures. Other students, such as Ron, Draco, Neville, Snape, Sirius, and Dumbledore, struggled with the influence and legacies of their parents. Some of them constantly lived in the shadow of their parents while others would change their ideas of family as they grew. Some were marked, even scarred, by their parents at a very young age while others learned lessons from them that would save their lives and shape their futures for the better. This panel seeks to analyze the influences and effects that these parents had on their children and determine whether their traits and actions were a result of nurture or nature.