Linh & Van
Heart-Beating Each Other Since 2013
Hi Everyone!
We have created this website together to draw you a picture about our 6 year story, and then to help us prepare the best to welcome you at our wedding party on 01 January 2020.
Heart-beat obviously means that our hearts beat as one, but also a pun for beating hearts of each other. In quidditch, the sport we are deeply involved in, beating is an action where a player shoots a Bludger to another, causing a mini stun, and we proudly say that we have pleasantly got ‘beat’ by each other every single day.
2013
Our story started back in 2013, when we first time met at work. It was a small team doing a project, and we were both in a supporter team. Very shortly after the introduction where Van slowly involved in the team’s activities, we found synchronisation in our unpopular interests, and also in the way how our brains, differently from others, performed. The harmony in thinking developed our relationship quickly, and also paved the way to all the succeeding events.
2014
We, with a group of friends, developed the Hogwarts School forum and built the largest Harry Potter fan community in Vietnam together. She coded the technical functions and set up regulations, while he helped running the content, writing poems and activities.
2015
We, with some other friends, founded the first quidditch team – with a vague idea of how to play from Google – in Hanoi, named it Draco Dormiens. Later the same year, we went to the UK together. Although we were in different cities, but it only enriched our experience abroad. She spent her spare time working for the 9 3/4 Shop at King’s Cross, while he was busy representing the quidditch team of Leeds. Great time, Great Britain.
2017
After completing the masters, we settled ourselves with some jobs, but also held a bunch of activities for our Facebook Page – Hogwarts Vietnam, grew it to 200K followers and collaborated with some UK Identities in terms of developing not only Harry Potter, but also English culture and literature, and of course, quidditch. Our team were the host of Asian Quidditch Cup that year in Hanoi, attracting 5 clubs from Asia and Oceania.
2018
This year we successfully fundraised sufficiently to take 9 players from Vietnam (together with 9 from abroad) to get Team Vietnam to the Quidditch World Cup in Firenze, Italy, helping the team to finish at rank 15 over 29 participated countries.
Later this year, he founded The Burrow – a HP themed hostel in the Old Quarter, also promoting quidditch to a lot of travellers.
2019
Together with our team Hanoi Draco Dormiens, we challenged in the Asian Quidditch Cup in Seoul, earning the 4th place over 10 participants. Later the same year, we ranked second in the first ever Vietnam Quidditch Cup in Saigon.
In 2019, she founded Merchie – an e-commerce platform promoting artists’ design and also officialising the manufacture of quidditch supplies.