The exhibition was exciting. The good part was a lot fo people loved our project, the bad part was that we unfortunantly were unable to see any of the other projects, because we were so busy with the Hogwarts Castle. It was neat how our castle captured the interest of everyone. The little kids, who couldn't quite understand the Room of Requirement or Fluffy's room, were amazed by the fire changing colors when spoken to. Then there was the Voldemort versus Harry battle game that had people anxious to try and beat. One kid came back to battle three times! This battle had both older kids and adults entertained and it made Karishma and I happy to see that other people were having fun with the castle we had created. The funny thing about the room of requirement though, was that your hand needed to be slender enough to get into the door and grab the Potions book. Some adult hands and some teenagers for that matter were just able to fit through, making that task more of a challenge for them than for other people.
The thing we would perhaps take into more account next time when making something like this is that the detail of Harry Potter lore, just may not be as needed. A few things we needed to explain the reasoning behind the contraption or action that occurred because not eveyone had seen the movies or read the book. But that wasn't too bad. For those Harry Potter enthusiast that were there, they were excited about seeing Hogwarts. One girl was able to name every room, just by looking at them. That kinda' shocked me, because I didn't think we'd decorated that well, but she did have a hard time with namming the chamber of secrets until we told her that the creature there was a Basilisk.
The hour exhibition went over quickly and we were slightly late packing up, because there was one more kid who wanted to explore the castle before we put it up. Then taking it down, it only broke into three pieces. We were kinda' fustrated. Taking the structure up to sage lounge resulted in it collapsing into easily six or seven pieces and us repairing it two hours before the exhibition. Oh well. At least we did repair it. Here are some clips from the exhibition.
It was exciting and fun and now I'm tired.
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