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Melissa Anelli is the author of the New York Times bestseller Harry, A History, which chronicles the Harry Potter phenomenon, the webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron fansite, and a host of the PotterCast podcast.
She is also the victim of 8 years of serious cyberstalking by a New Zealander she had banned from commenting at The Leaky Cauldron.
Anelli tried everything she could to get it to stop and in the process learned the limitations of international cyberstalking laws.
Anelli is a now a prominent voice on understanding and halting cyberbullying.