Harry Potter

December 18, 2009

Harry Potter MMORPG

David Artsmith  -  When you choose to take a piece of literature and expand upon it, either through , or through some form of fan fiction, there are a number of choices that you have to make. The very first thing that you have to consider, is whether you want to stick to the original tale as told by Rowling, or if you want to branch off into speculative fictional ideas? If you choose to follow the chronology of the book you can either choose to replay something that was written, simply mirroring what is in the story, or you can fill in gaps that the story doesn't cover, such as time periods which were glossed over, or events which were not described in great detail.

On the other hand you can always choose to create a completely new derivative. You can make turn evil, or can have Hermione get a crush on Snape, or any of an infinite number of changes that you can make, to explore the "what ifs" of the story.

Another choice you have to make is time. A series such as Harry Potter stretches out over 8 years, and you can set your own derivative adventures during any of those years, or even before or after the events in the book.

Finally, you have to make choices about characters. You have the entire world of hogwarts open to you, both from the books, and the implied world beyond; but it is up to you to understand the complexities of the relationships that exist between different characters, and how they react to one another. This will also be constrained and guided by the point in time in the story, where your own activities are taking place.

One of the things that can make a decent Harry Potter roleplaying session so difficult is that the book series is quite long and detailed, with literally hundreds of characters popping up at various points throughout. On the one hand this gives you a lot of room for creativity. On the other side of things, this increases the potential for you to make errors, or to leave out important information.

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October 11, 2009

Have You Seen Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince?

Have you been to see the new film? I went to the see the film last night with my fiancée and two children. The children were especially excited to go to the cinema to watch the next instalment of and his friends as they have loved the previous films. In this article I will be giving an honest opinion/review of the film.

My family had been waiting for the film to be released for quite some time and I am actually quite glad that I went to watch it. I doubt however if I will be purchasing the DVD. Why not? Well I have to say we all felt very disappointed with it; it was far too long for the amount of real action that was included within the film; it was as if they were just trying to do some form of “filler”. We were sat waiting for something worthwhile to happen; which it did from time to time but for me this particular film was just a way of making a whole heap of cash.

There was a young boy a few seats away from me who fell asleep with around thirty minutes remaining – if that boy is reading this article I can tell you that you did not miss much.

I am not a film reviewer, I do many things in life but this is not one of them. I am in fact a stammering therapy coach, I also work on other projects to do with becoming a foster parent and cost reduction.

Now you may read in various newspaper reviews that this film is “outstanding” or “the best ever”; these are the types of adjectives that these journalists like to use. I have a question for these people; how old are you? OK so you are not a child then? This is mainly a children’s film and I have to say that the type of comments that I received from my children were as follows:

“I thought the film was never going to end”

“It was not the best”

“There was not enough action in the film”

“It was too long”

On a more positive note the film was quite funny in parts and also quite sad at other times. The special effects were also quite impressive.

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