Ryan
Hometown: Massachusetts
Irked that he couldn’t locate an indepth Harry Potter fanfiction podcast, Ryan started PotterFicWeekly on February 11, 2007. Since that time, he has learned that goats make excellent lawnmowers, keys will sometimes come out of the ignition even if the car isn’t firmly in park, and that drugged-up podcast hosts = big numbers. He firmly wants PotterFicWeekly to be less structured and more casual than other podcasts, which is evident by its average three hour running time and by the fact that Jen frequently leaves halfway through the podcast to go get her laundry or to kiss her giant Snape blowup doll.
Jen
Jen (though I don’t know why I am referring to myself in the third person, but hey - am very much grammatically correct!), has been a Harry Potter fangirl since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone novel came out. After the release of the first movie, she discovered the world of Harry Potter Fanfiction (which was a good thing, because that Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman fanfic, was starting to look really good - very scary thought), and has yet to return to the world of reality. She considers herself an expert on all that is fanfiction, but is constantly on the quest of finding bigger, better, and more out-there fanfic stories and ships, and is constantly expanding her horizons in the HP universe. Her hobbies include: dancing around her house with her puppies in giddiness, reading fanfic recs and finding her own stories to rec, playing the piano (hey, I just discovered HP music - and can now play all the music from the movies on my piano!), and watching TV shows and movies with her hubby, James (their DVD collection constantly growing). She loves eggs and toast at all meals of the day, enjoys hand-writing notes to her grandmother and coloring the envelopes in favorite scenes from her many travels, and has a strange fascination with tweezers. During the day, she is a wedding photographer, but by night, she is JenMart01, Harry Potter fanfic forum connoisseur.
Email me at jen@potterficweekly.com
Rinna
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Wait, wrong story.
It was a dark and stormy night….
No, that doesn’t really work, either.
Rinna rocks the house. She was made by groovy people, out of fruit
that agreed to be in the Rinna in the first place. Her kung-fu is the
best.
Strengths: Height, magical abilities, mental prowress, stamina,
decisive wit, possesses the magic staff of DOOM.
Weaknesses: Requires regular spa treatments to maintain peak
performance. Tends to quote Eddie Izzard bits at socially
inappropriate times. Easily distracted by pretty and/or shiny things.
Special Skills: Magic fingers, mesmerizing dance moves, grammar
goddessness, ridiculous knowledge of astronomy.
Weapons: Pointy Madonna-bra, three-inch razor-sharp stilettos, wit
that can confound the toughest of opponents.
Element: Fire. She burns with the fiery passion of one thousand suns.
Email me at rinna@potterficweekly.com
PS
PS is a college student originally from Baltimore, Maryland and currently living in Massachusetts.
She has been a Harry Potter fan since 1999 and has been officially involved in the fandom since 2003. Her main passions in the fandom are Horace Slughorn, Snarry, Horace Slughorn, Remus/Sirius, Horace Slughorn and Harry/Ginny.
More recently, she has had her heart stolen by one Captain Jack Harkness and has no plans to seek to reclaim it. Thus, she spends most of her non-Poufwa free time writing fanfiction in the Doctor Who and Torchwood fandoms.
PS’s other pursuits include baseball, Japanese and spreading fun all over the world with Haruhi Suzumiya.
Email me at theplaidslytherin@potterficweekly.com
Kezza
Kezza is a Harry Potter fan from waaaaay back - all the way back to 2006. She’s been reading fanfiction since then and started compulsively writing her own works in mid 2007 after the release of Deathly Hallows. A mother of three, she has sort of brainwashed the kids and now they go around calling their father Voldemort. Hey, he started it … she just bought them their wands.
If you are looking for Kezza, you can find her clinging to the bottom of the world while the rest of PFW sleeps. She is either writing fanfiction, reading fanfiction or studying. As a full time Education student at university Kezza spends half her time avoiding writing her Honours thesis and the other half risking her life by hanging out her washing and other such noble pursuits.
An unrepentant Harry/Ginny shipper, Kezza spends her spare time giggling with Jen2, squeeing over Harry/Ginny fluff and editing Potterficweekly podcasts.
Email me at kezza@potterficweekly.com
Jen2
By day, Jen2 is a stay-at-home-mommy who blows spit bubbles and plays tea party to amuse her young daughter when she’s not microwaving Kraft Cheese and Macaroni or doing something equally domestic or nauseating. By night, however, Jen2 is a raging Harry/Ginny shipper who was introduced to the addiction of fanfic while awaiting the publication of Deathly Hallows. An avid reader and writer, Jen2 will read and review anything from the shampoo bottle to her dinner menu ~ and she’s not afraid to say what she thinks!
When Jen2 isn’t surfing the forum, working on PeonCast, mommying the eBaby, writing one of her current H/G WiP’s or ignoring her housework, she can usually be found talking to Kezza. If she’s can’t be found in one of those places, give it up. She’s sleeping!
Email me at jen2@potterficweekly.com
Peons
Melinda is a mom from Massachusetts who pretends she got into Harry Potter because of her kids, but really is thoroughly addicted all on her own (and definitely influenced her kids’ fascination, as well rather than the other way around). She found Harry Potter for GrownUps while waiting between GoF and OotP and was referred to some fanfiction from there and she’s been lost ever since. She began writing her own stories after the release of OotP, and her first story, Power of Emotion, was the first one she ever actually finished.
Email me at melindaleo@potterficweekly.com
Tina
I discovered Harry Potter when I started reading The Sorcerer’s Stone to my now 15 year old daughter; she lost interest in HP for a while, but Mom kept reading. Like many others, I discovered HP Fan Fiction shortly after finishing Order of the Phoenix and was faced with waiting a few years or more for new canon. Tending to gravitate to more “canonesque” fan fiction, I took the leap into different ’ships and some AU since joining PFW and have read different genres of HP fan fiction that I would never have read before. I am a voracious reader, love cooking and baking, am an avid fan of the New England Patriots, and admit to an unhealthy addiction to watching Food Network. I live in New Hampshire with my husband, Mark, and daughters, Samantha and Shannon.
Email me at tina@potterficweekly.com
Julia
Julia got into Harry Potter five years ago. She thought it would be an easy subject for a high school term paper. Boy was she wrong. She lives in Connecticut and has a BA in English from the UConn (go Huskies). She is currently working on her masters in secondary education, in order to fufill her life long goal of becoming John Keating from Dead Poet’s Society.
Julia’s obsession with fanfic began with After the End. She quickly read as much canon-based fanfic as she could get her hands on. She discovered PFW in January when she got an email from Phil on the AtE Yahoo group. It has since taken over her life.
Since attending Phoenix Rising in May, Julia has been into Wizard Rock. She spends a ridiculous amount of time and money buying albums and going to shows (ask her about the time she went to two shows in two days in two different states). However, she feels this is totally worth it because The Whomping Willow now knows her by name. She and Dan have started The PwnCast of WRock, a podcast dedicated to Wizard Rock. She suggests you listen to it, because it pwns.
Email me at julia@potterficweekly.com
Richard
A renowned hater of the boring, Richard takes the cake when it comes to loving the weird. Eclectic and eccentric, his taste in things vary more than the weather and are even less predictable. He loves the evil and morally ambiguous, he loves the dark side of life, claiming them to be much more entertaining. This coupled with a zany sense of humor and his unique ability to engage even strangers in conversation, make him a very interesting personality. Also loves walks on the beach, and dropping things from tall buildings.
Email me at richard@potterficweekly.com
Dan
Dan is an avid Harry Potter fan who discovered PotterFicWeekly through Melinda’s fic, The Seventh Horcrux. Dan is a college student currently studying Broadcasting at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
In addition to Dan’s love of Harry Potter fanfic, he is an avid Wizard Rock listener. In fact, Dan hosts a podcast with Julia and Cody (both from PFW as well) entitled The PwnCast of WRock. Currently, it’s the third most popular wizard rock podcast in existence, so check it out!
Outside of Harry Potter, Dan can constantly be found screaming at the television set as his Philadelphia sports teams continue to lose year after year. A diehard Eagles, Flyers and Phillies fan, Dan knows all too well the pain and suffering that accompany the life of a Philadelphia sports fan.
Email me at pfwradio@gmail.com
Phil
Phil had always enjoyed the Harry Potter books, but it wasn’t until
he discovered “After the End” by Arabella and Zsenya that he
developed what some psychologists refer to as an “unhealthy
obsession” with the characters and story. An old school fan of After
the End, Phil was one of the folks who was reading the fic as it was
being written. (You can’t imagine the pain of getting to the end of
Chapter 21 and having to wait WEEKS for Chapter 22!) A & Z even
inspired him to put pen to paper (so to speak) and write a couple of
brief outtakes for the story.
Phil lives an unassuming life in a quiet suburb of Sacramento,
California, with the occasional business trip overseas. He is
married (sorry, ladies), and his wife is far more wonderful than what
he deserves. He spends his spare time with his four beautiful kids,
and a couple of beagles. Phil and his wife enjoy reading the Potter
books to each other at night.
Email me at phil@potterficweekly.com
Mac
Ryan “Vikermac” McEwan (or Mac as he’s known on PFW) is a fairly normal 22 year-old guy. A native of Ohio, Mac is currently attending Transylvania University where he will soon graduate with a B.A. in History and Educational Studies. A self-declared “movie buff” Mac can often be found quoting a wide variety of movies in his attempts to sound intelligent and cool.
A Potter fan since just after the release of PoA (the book, not the movie), Mac has tried to read each of the books as many times as possible, and has only dipped his toe into the world of HP fanfic. A die-hard Harry/Ginny shipper, Mac can often be found making wise cracks about other less likely relationships and occasionally putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard as it were) in order to humor his fellow forum shippers.
Email me at mac@potterficweekly.com
Danielle
Danielle has been an avid Harry Potter fan for over five years. Sadly, she didn’t discover the wonderful world of Harry and friends until she was in college, missing out on several years of being in the fandom. However, since then, she has reread the books on numerous occasions, delved cautiously into the world of fanfic, and now harbors a secret dream to be J.K. Rowling’s personal chef (she starts pastry school in May, so it’s not as far off as one might think!).
Other interests include frequent viewings of British television shows, fruitless attempts to catch up with Jen’s forum post count, baking cookies, poking fun at Headmaster Ryan, and making googly eyes at TV’s Dr. House.
She is also soon to be an official New Yorker, although nothing, not even a NYC address, can extinguish her pride in being a member of Red Sox Nation.
Email me at danielle@potterficweekly.com
Jules
Jules (aka Aggiebell aka Jules) was first introduced to the wonderful world of Harry Potter by her eldest son, who was having Sorcerer’s Stone read to him in his second grade class. Seven years later, she now proudly claims the position of most-obsessed Potter-fan in the house. She started in the fandom in June of 2003 after the release of Order of the Phoenix and hasn’t looked back since. PFW’s resident Neville fangirl, Jules is an administrator and beta-reader at PhoenixSong.net and dabbles in writing in her spare time.
Jules works as a technician in a plant genomics lab for her day job, where she was given the title of “DNA Sequencing Goddess” for her lab (she is so proud…NOT); her evenings are spent chasing her kids around, in rehearsals for her handbell choir, beta-reading, or writing. A mother of four (three boys and a girl), Jules is grateful that her husband tolerates her obsession, especially since her house is pretty much always in a major state of crazy.
Email me at jules@potterficweekly.com
Editors
Rachel
Rachel (aka: Shiny) a 23 year old soon to be nursing student at Southwest Oregon Community College, where she plans to get her RN before going on to study nutrition and neurology. Rachel considers herself lucky to live on the coast, where she spends as much time as one can enjoying the many beaches, lakes, and other beautiful outdoor locations close to her home. When not at work for Sprint, Rachel enjoys creating art in Photoshop, playing Everquest2, cooking, reading, spending time with family, shopping and bowling with friends (her high game is a 48, she never said she was good!) and watching Becker re-runs.
Rachel found Harry Potter through her family, they always read the books and see the movies together. She stumbled onto fanfiction a few years ago, but only recently found the fan fiction community. Little did she know there was a place were people not only avidly read fan fiction, but took the time to make an entire podcast regarding it. She is learning to edit PFW podcasts in order to contribute to the community she enjoys being a part of. As much as Rachel enjoys fan fiction, and loves to write, she has no plans to ever write a HP story of her own.
Email me at eagles02@gmail.com
Wayne
Wayne (Also known as wej5541) was born and raised in the Albany, NY area. He is currently employed as a video editor.
Since entering the fandom, Wayne has read many fics and used several message boards and Yahoogroups. Wayne is primarily a Harry / Ginny shipper but is open to reading many other ships and AU fics.
Wayne is glad to be joining the PFW team as an editor.
Email me at wayne@potterficweekly.com
Omly
Omly is a mom of one and a graduate student in chemical engineering in the Boston area, where she also got her bachelors in chemistry, math and physics. Apparently she doesn’t do anything by halves. As a result she draws and crafts to stay sane. Recently she added audio editing to her list of spare time activities. She is also an avid reader of both HP and non-HP fiction. Let her know if you ever discover any decent fem-slash, because she is getting the the point where she doesn’t believe it exists in this fandom.
Email me at omly@potterficweekly.com
