“You’re a wizard, Harry.” 
-Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

If you’ve read all the Harry Potter books and are eager to connect with other Potterheads, you’ve come to the right place! Together we will:

🥳Celebrate our Harry Potter fandom
🥳Discuss our best and worst theories
🥳Explore JKR’s larger Wizarding World, the Fantastic Beast franchise, food, games, and more
🥳Play Harry Potter Trivia
🥳Create Harry Potter-inspired content such as write short stories, design a Quidditch Team name/logo, create SPEW badges (just kidding, or am I??)…and more!

Sample discussion questions include:
🗨️What if Harry had been placed in Slytherin the way the sorting hat wanted to place him?
🗨️Why is Peter Pettigrew in Gryffindor?
🗨️Which of the Deathly Hallows would you want, and how would you use it?
🗨️What wizarding world career would you be most suited for?

🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄

In addition to discussing the Harry Potter books we will play games such as “Words That Must Not Be Named” (spin off from the game Taboo), enjoy optional Wizarding World dress up days, try treats/foods mentioned in the books (optional), build magical worlds in Scratch, create Harry Potter designs in Canva, and watch occasional fan theories. Please see the syllabus for the flow of our meetings and for tentative topics. Topics may vary depending on learner interest.

I encourage participation as it makes the class more engaging and I believe it’s empowering for learners to share their perspectives. Learners can participate verbally, through the class chat, through emojis, by helping select some of the class readings/games/topics, or through other ways that make them feel comfortable. I respect that not all learners are ready to share. Learners always have the option to pass.

There are no fixed assigned weekly readings as learners in this group should be familiar with all seven books. It’s worth having the books handy as we will use them to look for evidence for or against claims. The class is non-sequential so learners are able to drop in during the weeks they’re available. Learners will be given the option to volunteer theories they'd like to discuss or to come up with their own trivia questions for the group. Learners can opt out of this, as I'll always have backup topics for us to discuss.

🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄

Below is a tentative syllabus for our first 4-club meetups. The remaining 4-weeks will be designed depending on learner interests.

WEEK 1

Community Building
⭐Go over community guidelines for club participation
⭐Why do you love Harry Potter?
⭐How many times have you read the books?
⭐What would you like to get out of this club?

Trivia
⭐Answer trivia questions

Theories/Debates/Discussion
⭐What are some of your favorite HP theories? Which would you like to discuss in class?

Just for Fun
⭐What is your HP house? Is that the house you wanted to be in? Why or why not?
⭐Design a Harry Potter House themed shirt

Closing/Feedback

WEEK 2

Community Building
⭐Ranking the HP books in order. Explain your ranking.
⭐Share our favorite Harry Potter resources for picking up new theories

Trivia
⭐Answer trivia questions
⭐Choose members to come up with trivia questions for next session

Theories/Debates/Discussion
⭐How do you think Harry’s experiences throughout the books might’ve been different if he had the qualities/temperament more associated with the other houses? Would it have mattered? If he had those other qualities, how may that have impacted his journey throughout the 7 books?

Just for Fun
⭐“Words that Must Not Be Named”: Harry Potter inspired game of Taboo or Unspeakable

Closing/Feedback

WEEK 3

Community Building
⭐What type of magic are you most drawn to, why?

Trivia
⭐Answer trivia questions

Theories/Debates/Discussion
⭐Why do you think Hogwarts allows students to go to the Forbidden Forest as punishment? What are the pros and cons?

Just for Fun
⭐Make “magic” in Scratch

Closing/Feedback

WEEK 4

Community Building
⭐Which character(s) did you most like?

Trivia
⭐Answer trivia questions

Theories/Debates/Discussion
⭐Popular Fan Theories: What could’ve happened the night Lily and James died? How could Sirius Black have known so quickly about Peter’s betrayal?

Just for Fun
⭐Make “magic” in Scratch (continue last week’s project/ optional presentation)

Closing/Feedback

🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄 

PLEASE NOTE: Outschool is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., owner of the Harry Potter® mark and related Harry Potter marks.