Anyone going to the Science of Harry Potter Panel Discussion?

[Shar]

Hiya :)

Welp, Friday has come and gone. It's hard to remember everything that 
was talked about because there were so many interesting things.

The author of "The Science of HP", Roger Highfield was there, as well 
as the animator, David Andrews, who created Dobby for the movie. It 
was pretty cool. 

The whole thing was about how some of the ideas in HP are derived or 
can be explained by our muggle science & technology. They showed that 
levitation is actually possible. That was really cool to know! They 
showed a person levitating some little metal thing between their 
fingers and then showed a slide that has a frog levitating. Mr. 
Highfield had said "For all your Potter-Maniacs out there, that 
unforunately was not Neville's toad." Hehe. And that there is a 
Japanese scientist who has created an invisibility cloak (I already 
knew this though). It's a prototype, but you can see right through 
the guy wearing the cloak. 

When David Andrews came up for his little presentation, we got to see 
how he created Dobby and how they put that into the film. We got to 
see the voice actor for Dobby, Toby Jones, doing the recording for 
the movie. That was hysterical. And we also go to see footage of Dan 
acting with the orange ball he kept mentioning in interviews. The 
whole thing was really fantastic.

That's about it! :) Maybe there'll be another gathering soon that I 
can attend, since it seems I just missed the last one! Is anyone here 
from Brooklyn?

~*Shar*~