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My name is Irvin, and I am a writer, frequently writing online under the monikers "Irvin K" and "hpboy13."

I first realized I was a writer back in 2005, when I dove into fanfiction by writing my own version of the seventh Harry Potter book, and realized how much I love writing. I spent my teen years writing fanfiction, my college years writing filks (song parodies), and then accidentally fell into theatre journalism in my mid-twenties when I wrote about Puffs. Through it all, I wrote essays about Harry Potter - at first for various fansites, and in the past decade as the longest-tenured columnist at MuggleNet.com.

So take a look around, do some reading, and enjoy!

If you'd rather go directly to the sites I write for and see my columns there, click the following:

MuggleNet's The Three Broomsticks

Hypable (for all other fandoms)

HP Lexicon's Harry Potter Minute (for bite-size HP analysis)

Goodreads (for book reviews, since I'm an avid reader too!)

In 2018, I became a published author. So the piece of writing I am most excited about is my first book, Dumbledore: The Life and Lies. The beginnings of that book will be found here (under Albus Dumbledore), but there is a separate Website just for the book. Check it out!