page_title: Fantasy fandom
hierarchical_section_title: Fantasy fandom
caption_attribution_description: Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter, Severus Snape
context_page_description: Fantasy fandom is a fandom and commonality of fans of the fantasy genre.
  It revolves around popular media franchises belonging to the fantasy genre and can include collective fan works of these fantasy franchises and events that celebrate franchises of the genre as well as characters belonging to that genre.
  Examples of fan clubs devoted to stories and franchises of fantasy and include Disneyana fanclub, and The Tolkien Society in appreciation of works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
  In more recent times, the development of the Internet has also taken fandom communities online.
context_section_description: Fantasy fandom is a fandom and commonality of fans of the fantasy genre.
  It revolves around popular media franchises belonging to the fantasy genre and can include collective fan works of these fantasy franchises and events that celebrate franchises of the genre as well as characters belonging to that genre.
  Examples of fan clubs devoted to stories and franchises of fantasy and include Disneyana fanclub, and The Tolkien Society in appreciation of works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
  In more recent times, the development of the Internet has also taken fandom communities online.
caption: Harry Potter fans dressed up in replica robes of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter and Severus Snape.
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