Blog Post #1 Response: What I expected

When I first heard the first Harry Potter book it was read to my 5th grade class by our over excited teacher. She was the kind of teacher that went well beyond any required texts and made you really enjoy learning things. She couldn't at the time I guess convince the higher ups at the private Lutheran school that a book about magic school was appropriate. But even though she read the books at the end of the day after class there was always a large crowd listening to her making all the voices with accents and feeling and asking students what they thought would happen next and of course why. It was a fun experience and after watching half the class frantically jot down numbers to figure out which house had one the cup before Rowling stated... and for those of you keeping track... it was clear to me that this author was now well inside the heads of all of us. Just as we'd all return to school the next year we'd also have to return to Harry Potter and continue that learning experience as well. We may not have had the same abuse or magic as Harry but there was a shared experience that made us all expect him to do the right thing and overcome whatever he faced.