Enter the magical world of a Harry Potter fan event that sucked total goblin ass
Decades into an era of obsessive Harry Potter love, it shouldn’t be all that hard to come up with an event that entertains the book and film series’ fans. While a recent convention showed just how deep organizers can go into wizardly attractions, including panels offering in-depth textual analysis and Potter-based political theory, even a less-intense version of this sort of thing that provided say, a few purple drinks or a chance to be sorted into Hogwarts houses by a guy with a microphone hiding behind a curtain would do just fine, too.
Somehow, despite just how easy it is to please swarms of people so desperate for any whiff of that Potter magic that they’ll pay close attention to those awful Fantastic Beasts movies or J.K. Rowling’s trivia about wizardly pants-shitting, a recent convention held in Montreal managed to disappointment on a truly magical scale.
Detailed in a recent Vice article, the event (ticket price: $50) took place at the city’s Rialto Theatre last Friday and provided such spell-binding attractions as “aluminum trays filled with store-bought cupcakes,” “Halloween store electric tea lights next to laptop,” and every Potter fan’s dream: A table strewn with chopsticks that they could cover in glitter and pretend were the world’s saddest little wands.