So, a whole project based on Harry Potter. To some people this sounds like the best project because they have grown up reading and watching the Harry Potter books and movies. For me though I was coming in with a completely blank mind, which turned out to be more useful than I thought.

My question was; What would a modern Hogwarts look like? How could it be hidden? And what would it cost?

Designing a new hogwarts tired out to be a mixed bag, I’ll explain in the next paragraph, but first look at the old plan compared to the three floor new one:

For me the most interesting but also the most challenging part was being able to imagine looking at the plan come to life from the perspective of students, teachers and muggles. Not just standing outside it but how it would be to teach learn and navigate in and through the school.

I was most surprised by people’s reactions to be honest. After seeing the caliber of other people’s projects mine felt really small and insignificant. But even Alex’s dad who is an architect was not only impressed by my plan but he said that my pricing estimate was realistic and practical. The pricing chart is below.

But this whole $17,000,000 building can’t just be in the middle of the city, in fact the exact opposite, I chose an extremely remote place. In fact the 12th most remote in the world.

You can choose your own way to pronounce that.

For the presentation part of this project we were split into groups and were told to turn the library into Hogwarts. My group of Tatum, Spencer, Kate, Claire and Quinn were given the racetrack, a long table with a projector at the end and a huge whiteboard next to it. What other part of Hogwarts would we pick for a long table then the great hall.

(At Christmas time of course)

We hung candles from the ceiling (fake ones) for the floating candles that were in the great hall.

Amd covered the table with different kinds of Christmasy treats. Ms Pye (our science and math teacher) even brought in a chocolate fountain!

I had my project projected on to the whiteboard and me on the other side of the table talking about it.

In conclusion, the whole project was much more exciting and entertaining that I thought it was going to be. I thought I was going to be lost in a sea of nerds arguing about tiny details of Harry Potter’s plot (well that kinds did happen but…) I did enjoy the process of this project more than I thought I would.