Week 8 - Carly Rowe

Much like everybody who grew up in my same time, I loved and still have a huge obsession with Harry Potter.  (I decorate my house in Harry Potter decor for Halloween, every year!) 

This week for my blog post, I am posting the description from the first book, about the Great Hall.

"Harry had never even imagined that such a strange and splendid place. It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. These tables were laid with glittering golden plates and goblets. At the top of the hall was another long table where the teachers were sitting. Professor McGonagall led the first years up here, so that they came to a halt in a line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them. The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. Dotted here and there and among the students, the ghosts shone misty silver. Mainly to avoid all the staring eyes, Harry looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars. He heard Hermione whisper, "It's bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts: a History" It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great Hall didn't simply open on to the heavens." 

In the description of the Great Hall when all of the students are walking in, before the sorting hat, the words that are used are the most descriptive I have ever read, the words used such as flickering, misty, glittering, bewitched, are all descriptive words and add detail to the description. Much like in chapter 10, the word selection is important in stories like these fantasy stories.