04.08 Free Choice Blog

My First Collaboration!

 This was my first ever blog collaboration on Florida Virtual School! I will admit I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but I made it! The person that I partnered with for the assignment was Zanya Lorentsen. While reading her blog I was able to find out a few things like where she was from (Indonesia), some of the music she likes to listen to, and her favorite books (Harry Potter). Interesting enough, Harry Potter is exactly what I am going to talk about because Zanya had written about Harry Potter in one of her blog posts that I read. So anyways... here I go...

                                                  Harry Potter

  I learned through Znaya's blog that "Harry Potter" is about a young wizard. Now I am not going to lie... I do know who Harry Potter is already... but I will say that I have never read the books, so that's a good thing : ). Anyways, back to the story. So Harry Potter is this young boy that lives with his aunt and uncle and their spoiled son. Harry's parents had been killed when he was just a baby by a man named Voldemort. Harry's somehow survived and was left with just a small scar on his forehead. So he grew up with with his aunt and uncle and cousin. One day though, he started receiving letters that were addressed to him. But before he could read them his aunt and uncle would take them from him. For some reason they got pretty freaked out and even decided to move to an island that they had never even heard of. Harry was confused and had no idea what was going on. One night when they were on the island about to go to sleep, they heard a knock on the door. Whoever it was wouldn't go away and pretty soon the was a large man standing in their house. The man told Harry that he was a wizard and Harry was as well. He told him that he wanted him to go with him to a school named Hogwarts.  The next day the man ( now called Hagrid), took Harry shopping for all of the things he would need for school. Everyone that met Harry or already knew who he was were in shock and amazed to see him. Then Hagrid told Harry the story of Voldemort...

 This was where Zanya had stopped reading. I really liked her post because it not only told all about what she had read and even went into detail. But it showed that she really did understand what was going on, which made me understand what was going on better as well. I think Zanya wanted her readers to really get the meaning of the things that were happening in the story.