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R - JENERATION: Harry Potter club cast spells on Green Valley High School
By JOE RAJCHEL
R-JENERATION
No walk in the Green Valley high school hallways, there is no talking portraits or give you directions to Transfigurations ghosts. However, on Friday afternoon, students can stumble on Harry Potter club.
In autumn 2008, senior Nicco Marcus decided to start a club of Harry Potter as a place where students can meet and discuss the Potter world.
"I was really in a podcast called Mugglecast wherein they analysed separately for each chapter and discussed literary devices and links to the mythology", explains Marcus. "There is no school book club and I realized that nobody would prevent us from having one, even if it is focused on Harry Potter."
Each meeting is configured in the same way, he began to 2.30 p.m. and lasts a heure.La meeting begins with an update of events in the community of Potter.Students then move on to the main discussion and put an end to the encounter with a song of wrock Wizard that relates to the topic.
"We will look at current events (in particular) to some prosecutions that J.K. Rowling crosses,"said Marcus.""
She says that the group is also talk about the new film, "Harry Potter and the relics of death: part 1," which is based on the last novel in the series of seven - book.The book has been divided into two films.La first half was released earlier this month, and the second half is scheduled to hit theatres in July.
The Harry Potter series written by. k. Rowling, began in Britain in 1997 with "The sorcerer," which was published a year later United States known as "Witch Stone."The book and his subsequent payments were instant bestsellers.
The last novel, "The Deathly Hallows," was published in July 2007.La series of seven books sold at least 400 million copies worldwide and was sold in 69 languages.
The film franchise generated nearly 6 billion in theatres worldwide entier.Milliards more have been generated by DVD, TV and goods sales.
"Deathly Hallows" marked big Canada in its opening weekend raking in record 125.1 million, according to the Associated Press.
Junior Rachel Young is the embodiment of the club hope accomplir.Quand joined the club, she had not read the book and that he was not yet a fan but quickly fell in love with the series.
"I started because I was looking for something to do, but after a few weeks, I had decided to read the books and became obsessed with," Young.?
Marcus says she loves to the music of wrock Wizard because it lets him teach lessons from real-life through them, as well as the display of the history of different points of view.
"The songs allows people to discover the events of history from the perspective of the different characters," explained Marcus. "It also makes people look on both sides of an event see where one comes.?
Even though she is a graduate of the next year, Marcus says that she saw no club ending in any temps.Elle has been training junior Alyssa Caplain, who had joined the club by chance to take in the next year.
"A few friends and I love Harry Potter would join but the day we were supposed to go to the meeting, they were busy, and so I went by myself," said Caplain. "I started to become friends with Nicco and it really comes from here.?
Goal for the coming year is to get more people who love Harry Potter to come because they are those who can help the discussion moving along.
"We want fans to come because so many people love and just displays", explains Caplain. ""Those who have read the books really made the interesting discussions".
Even with the latest Potter film planned out next summer's members are not concerned about a lack of interest or equipment to work with the Club to continue.
"Harry Potter will never die and therefore I do not see the club never ending," said Marcus.
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