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[ken_schneyer]

My schedule for Readercon 27, which will take place July 7-10, 2016, at the Quincy Marriott, Quincy, MA (new location):

Friday July 08

2:00 PM C Cozy Dystopia. Gili Bar-Hillel, Bart Leib, Shariann Lewitt, Kenneth Schneyer (leader), Sabrina Vourvoulias. When we think of the world of Harry Potter, what comes to mind first-the magic and childish

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[madderbrad]

When we think of the world of Harry Potter, what comes to mind first -

The massive number of errors, flaws and plot holes, and how sad it is that the commercial achievement of the venture was so equally massive, the success so undeserving.

Well, you did ask. :-)

Maybe we need a new subgenre: Cozy Dystopia.

Heh.

What's the proper name for a society which has two distinct echelons, an upper class and an underclass? Everything's pretty rosy for the Ron Weasleys of Rowling's world - which is practically everyone minus Hermione Granger - who are quite satisfied with the status quo and don't consider the plight of the downtrodden or hidden (convenient that house elves are so practised at being invisible).

I suppose some other YA dystopias are similar; the Capitol of The Hunger Games versus the districts and so forth.

So what were the conclusions of the panel?

I see they selected a Harry Potter expert as the panel leader. :-)