A "Muggles"Dream Come True!

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Media Meditation # 2I am what you call a Harry Potter enthusiast! I have read every book in the series at least twice, camped out at Barnes and Noble’s prior to the book releases and attended the midnight showings of all the Harry Potter films that have been made thus far. Over the last ten years I have relied solely on my imagination to paint an image of Harry’s world in my mind, a world that I desperately wanted to visit and be apart of. This summer all of my wildest dreams became a reality when I went to the Harry Potter Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.This exhibit is a traveling exhibit that showcases the costumes and major props from all the Harry Potter films. The way the exhibit was laid out made it seem as if you were attending class at Hogwarts, relaxing in the Gryffindor common room, visiting Hagrid in his hut, and even what it felt like to be in the presence of a dementor. As I walked through the exhibit I recognized things from the films such as the actual goblet of fire and the flying car, and discovered small things such as “Quidditch” flyers, candy wrappers and notebooks that were lost in the background of the films. The exhibit allowed the visitors to see how much detail went into the movies and made me appreciate the films production techniques even more. The atmosphere of the exhibit was also executed exceptionally well. The lighting, music and images appealed to the limbic brain very effectively. The entire time I walked through the exhibit I just kept thinking “this is so cool” because I never thought I would get the chance to experience this emotional transfer first hand.Now why is it that people like me become so obsessed with Harry Potter? A fantasy book series turned into a movie series which proves to be a technological shift. In the book Media and Society written by David Croteau and William Hoyness a study by Ien Ang is discussed to explain f
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