She first came to the HP world as a parent, and watched her son’s literacy skills grow under JKR’s spell. She used her experiences to develop and teach Harry Potter: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, a graduate education course that in its seventh year. Teachers explore not only Rowling’s work, but also the wealth of related academic and fan-based material, from participatory culture to wizard rock and vidding. They then use their new knowledge to transform their classrooms into places where authentic learning, creativity and imagination, and 21st century skills are the real magic. Her students describe her as a cross between Professors McGonagall and Lupin, (with a dash of Sybil Trelawney).