Contest Winner

Hello Children,

I'm not going to say that everyone did wonderfully and this was SUCH a difficult decision. Of course truer words have never been spoken, but I doubt anyone ever really believes such sentiments. As a result, the anguish I've been through over the past hours as I made my decision will go entirely unnoticed. That's my burden, what do you care?

While I did ask one question; "What does the Harry Potter Series Mean to You," I love that each of you answered in entirely different ways. Miss Marlow's picture showed how love was the overall theme of the stories, and her use of colour is lovely. Her detailed description added to my over all understanding of her work.

Miss Devan's video is epic in it's use of music, while Aurora's is incredibly funny. Both approaches are shining examples of JK Rowlings writing.

Miss Martin's comparison of Harry, Voldemort and myself to the Peverell brothers is clever and creative, and she also made it beautiful with her use of colour.

Miss Ansbach did a lovely job fitting a big meaning into few words. As a writer myself, I know how difficult that is. Every word must be chosen with care in order to make it work, and Miss Ansbach was certainly successful in that.

The winner is Miss Callaghan. I love that her work is so deeply personal to herself, and in the end... isn't this what we all truly love about the Harry Potter series? While these characters are fictional, they help us through the many mediums we use to channel them. Whether we read JK Rowlings words, write fanfiction, create fan art, or hop on Facebook to RP with the characters we love. The characters are always there for us.

OK. Thank you to everyone who submitted. It's been fun. Let's do this again some time soon.

Miss Callaghan, email me and we'll talk. I do believe I promised a prize for this.

Sincerely,

Headmaster Severus Snape
Potions Genius