Audrey Spindler is a French 32 year old teacher who lives in a charming medieval town in South Burgundy. After completing a history degree, she passed a research MA, specialising in 17th and 18th century history, and a DEA in "Western Culture and Civilisation - From Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century", which focussed particularly on religious and social history. A teacher by day, Audrey can be found each night in the Lexicon forum, where she keeps her HP obsession going amongst fellow Potterheads. Her passion for Harry Potter and history finally met when she discovered that alchemy was a key element of the books' symbolism. The Alchemy thread she started with some friends has has been an amazing bubbling cauldron for months now, and it is the theories born out of this work which she will present to us this summer.