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mind-and-gut-wrenching ...
going through the experience ... |
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Hi!
I conducted a Harry Potter Quiz at the Literature Festival, last Saturday.
That was nerve-racking enough in itself, being the biggest platform I've ever conducted an event on, to date. I asked my team and my friends, several times, if I had been insane to take up such a task. Friday night, I tossed and turned, thinking of everything that could go wrong ... and daring to glimpse, in my imagination, how it would be if everything went right.
What I hadn't counted on was what actually happened.
Far, far more dramatic than anything my imagination had conjured up.
The Chief Minister of a neighbouring state had a court case against her -- and since the authorities anticipated trouble if it was tried in her own state, she was brought to the court here, to be tried and, if convicted, sentenced.
On my way to the quiz, I passed by the court. Thousands of her supporters lined the streets, watched over by hundreds of policemen. I was within touching distance of a mob that was getting restless.
It was one of the weirdest experiences ever. There I was, thinking Harry Potter, getting my tricky questions right in my mind, anticipating participant reactions to my more difficult posers -- while a piece of history was being played out alongside. I took my mobile phone and called my Dad, who was going to take photos of the quiz and had planned to reach just in time, telling him to keep an eye on the TV news and to cancel his ride if riots did break out. I called my team to find out that all of them were okay, enroute to the venue. I called Dad again telling him to cancel his ride anyway, I couldn't take the stress of picturing him trying to get there through the political potboiler.
The team got there.
The participants got there.
Everyone was keeping an eye on the news.
The verdict was GUILTY -- the sentence to be pronounced.
We did the quiz. It was a huge success. Everyone asked when the next quiz would take place. Everyone applauded the custom-made prizes the winners got (bags, hand-painted by a very talented friend of mine).
One of the participating authors has a wife who works for the media, she was covering the case, at the courtroom. Her mobile phone was unreachable, signals around the courthouse had jammed.
We couldn't figure out if it was safe to return home. My aunt called to say I should book myself and my team in to the nearest hotel for the night.
I asked my chauffeur -- he said he'd get me home.
My team braved the public buses.
My aunt was yelling,"You are responsible for those people, they were there for your quiz!"
I passed the court again, on the way home.
It was surprisingly calm -- there were people, but no threat of a riot this time. In fact, with everyone staying home, traffic was purring along pretty smoothly. I got home.
Dad had the TV on. "Thank goodness you're here -- there's curfew around the courthouse, now." Apparently, I had beaten the curfew by minutes, maybe even seconds.
I messaged my team. They confirmed they were out of the troubled areas. They confirmed they were home.
Yes, people, my quiz was a success. It was the biggest platform I'd ever been on.
And I had some drama in the background, too.
Hope I've managed to capture it here!
- Sonali
PS -- She's going to spend four years in Azkaban, and has a billion rupee fine. |
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My earlier Drama NL generated these responses.
Thanks to all the respondents!
Co-incidentally, I'd mentioned Harry Potter quizzes in " Drama Newsletter (June 11, 2014)" , too!
I'm re-reading Game of Thrones right now. I've read it once and understand the plot, but I'm reading for clues for things to come and I don't have to worry about the plot and what happens, as I understand that all ready. Sometimes it's really fun to re-read with a "clearer" understanding.  SantaBee 
You are amazing! I read the books and thoroughly enjoyed them, but I never made the associations you did. However, a good writer does this. I wonder, did she know this? That would mean she CRAFTED this books completely before writing them. To be fair, the people who write like this are gifted in a way most of us only dream about. Once a book is published and later we think, "I should have had a foreshadowing there first so I could link it here. Crafting a series is hard and more complicated. Remembering she did all this long hand in notebooks for the most part. She is truly an amazing writer. To answer the question: I rarely read books twice or more times. I would not read the last two Dan Brown books. I absolutely love his first 4 as Deception Point is my all time favorite and the only one I've read parts of more that a few times. The last two were awful! I wish he'd go back to crafting books like DP and Digital Fortress, his first book. Quick-Quill 
My favorite series to read is the Redwall series - all 22 novels. I started reading them in the 3rd grade - never stopped rereading them. Then there's the Inheritance series - The end of Book 4 is almost line-for-line the same as a certain scene in the First Book, also, there's all those little hints that get dropped along the way, like The Name, The Hearts, The Vault of Souls. In sort, if I like it, I'll end up rereading it. BIG BAD WOLF is Merry  |
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