Laura Thompson was a homeschooling teenager in Forsyth County and feeling a social void in her life when she stumbled into podcasting. The Dallas-native moved to the area in 2000 right before starting middle school. It was the height of fandom over the massively-successful Harry Potter book series, and Thompson was a devoted fan, so much so that she started working for MuggleNet, a prominent Harry Potter fan website, just a few years into homeschooling after attending North Forsyth High School for a year.