Edit: Hahaha, oops, this was supposed to go to my beta...... ;)

Group by psycological pattern

Harry Potter (stick with me non nerds) influenced a generation of young minds, and swayed across the older generations' thought patterns too.

JK Rowling isn't the best writer in terms of poetry, plot device etc. I've heard many people discuss the level of enjoyment with a wondering. I've called it her [world building] and found that not quite significant enough words to descibe what I mean broadly enough; and therein lies the heart of the matter.

As a writer I am trying to describe [it happens in the overlays] through character and plot, my peculiar perspective of the (real) world. This is why I love novels and Tv in totally different ways - a novel is one (sometimes more) mind collating together a life of experience into a sifting tapestry that (if effective) will leave a reader mute [/passive] to their own environment and persective; viewing through the eyes of another into a shared imaginative world. Tv collects the minds and body language of many to display a collated world that a viewer can (in a similar manner) be absorbed by. [As discussed before – [CHECK THIS] neuroplasticity would imply that experience is encoded in neuronal patterns that with exercise become more stable and the more likely [path/pattern/chain] for [is it .electrons.] to slide down[/follow].. Given that language works on a basis of mutual experience and context (i.e. I know trees are usually green as does my friend in Australia, we know around autumn they turn yellow as the temperature drops, so if my friend asks about the weather 'leaves have turned' is a decent explination), the language used by a writer can tap into a lifetime of experience]. So if you can effect enough minds to a pattern that's comfortably welcomed and exercised* then a wave of motion in society is formed.

JK Rowling's books were just described to me as a 'modern classic' [prompting this piece]. We can probably all agree that the 7th book wandered (“every publised writer knows, every book is a failure to descibe what was imagined”) so if it's not the plot, characters are great.. but there's someting more - it's the world.

The four houses loosly tie together psychological behaviour/pattern groups; the world is defined by victorious characters that call 'the monster' what he is over leaving an unnamed evil, while accepting that truly awful things happen and can be survived, overcome; and integally, the characters display the kinds of bungling that happens because time doesn't stop for us.

With a world like that you can have characters display all manner of traits in a fresh light.

These are seven books and eight films that had a hand in making who we** are today.

*across the board (of people and experiance)

**me and mine, at least

A/N; some time if you're interested I'll tell the story of seeing the last film for the first time, alone and content with the sounds of the city of Sheffield as a backdrop.