https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc Welcome to everyone on our Harry Potter tour. Before we start talking about the great masterpiece by J. K. Rowling, we will stop to talk a bit about her. en-us 2018-08-03 09:10:16 UTC 2018-09-12 21:33:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Prizecup.png elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271874777 J. K., who stands for Joanne Kathleen, was born in Yate in England. After university she moved to London as a bilingual researcher and secretary. One day she took a train and it was at that moment that the character of Harry Potter came to mind. She then began writing the first novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and concluded it five years later, in 1995. After years she moved back to Edinburgh. In 1997 she presented his book to a very famous publishing house, the "Bloomsbury", which decided to publish his novel making it successful and bringing it to the drafting of new chapters of the saga.]]> 2018-08-03 09:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271874777 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271874808 2018-08-03 09:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271874808 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271874834 In this pub Rowling wrote almost the entire Harry Potter saga. As she was very poor, she preferred to sit at a table in a corner overlooking the Castle, to find inspiration. She only spent a pound on something hot and stayed there a whole day, rather than staying home and having to pay for heating and electricity.]]> 2018-08-03 09:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271874834 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875002 2018-08-03 09:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875002 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875082 The Balmoral hotel is very important for Rowling, as it is there that, in Room 552, she wrote the last chapter of the saga. Currently the door handle is decorated with an owl. The architecture of the building is Victorian, influenced by the traditional Scottish baronial style.]]> 2018-08-03 09:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875082 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875347 2018-08-03 09:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875347 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875364 Inspired by this way, Rowling structured Diagon Alley, or the shopping area where Hogwarts students can purchase school supplies. In this street there are three Harry Potter-themed shops and the most famous is Diagon House. Going down there is a shop called "Ha Ha Ha" where Rowling took inspiration for the shop "Tiri vispi Weasley".]]> 2018-08-03 09:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271875364 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876189 2018-08-03 10:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876189 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876250 This cemetery is considered one of Edinburgh's most visited attractions. This place is full of stories and legends, it seems to be one of the most haunted places in the world: full of ghosts and tormented souls. Here Rowling was inspired by the creation of many characters from the saga through the dead:
- William McGonagall, a Scottish poet who has not found much success, in fact is considered the worst poet in the world. In the saga became Minerva McGonagall, the transfiguration professor;
- Elizabeth Moodie became Alastor Moody, the professor of the fourth year of defense against the dark arts;
- Margaret Louisa Scrymgeour Wedderburn became our minister of magic Rufus Scrimgeur;
- Thomas Riddell became "He who can not be named", "the dark lord": Tom Marvolo Riddle alias Lord Voldemort.]]> 2018-08-03 10:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876250 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876313 2018-08-03 10:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876313 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876348 George Heriot is a primary school, from which Rowling took inspiration from the Hogwarts school of magic and witchcraft. In George Heriot, as well as Hogwarts, the students are divided into 4 houses:
- Lauriston, green, by the street named Lauriston Place;
- Greyfriars, white, for the neighbor John Gray, owner of Bobby;
- Raeburn, red, for a former student named Henry Raeburn;
- Castle, blue, for the Edinburgh Castle.
Rowling, on the other hand, called the four houses:
- Slytherin;
- Gryffindor;
- Hufflepuff
- Ravenclaw.]]> 2018-08-03 10:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876348 elena_zanfini https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876677 2018-08-03 10:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elena_zanfini/mfnhxaccbnbc/wish/271876677