We are wizards and Why Heather can write about Harry Potter

We are Wizards and Why Heather can write about Harry Potter are a complementary help for each other to see the many different worlds that the harry potter fandom created. The documentary shows the many colors that the Harry Potter story brought to society, especially children that wanted to be part not just of the books, but of a new reality.  Both the Film and the Documentary show the positive reactions and influence of this massive interaction of people around the Harry Potter books. Also, the conflict of people who is against Harry Potter and the downsides of taking something that have been bought by a large company to mostly profit. The documentary We are Wizards by the end conclude in a positive interaction between these two powerful entities, the audience or the fandom and the big industry behind Harry Potter.

Even though the documentary itself didn’t completely caught my attention, probably for some poor choices in their main characters, I believe that the main point came across trough it. The highlight of children teaching other children is consistent as Jenkins explained in the reading.  Furthermore, the examples of Heather is one of the most compelling and smart choices for the positive portrayal of the Harry Potter fandom.  Something else that I agree, in some portion is the fact that she worked and manage a media that empowered her even though she wasn’t professionally qualified to do it, as is direct a newspaper.  I believe that, the documentary and the example of Jenkins about maybe giving children the authority can get a downside, to me is the fact that things are not going to always be in the right direction, and it can get a bit messy. Maybe the documentary is an example of that, it wasn’t probably shot is directed by children, but it seems as a really disorganize presentation of different consequences of the fans of Harry Potter.  Its messy at a times, it has two or three moments when I thought it would come to a resolution, or an end but it continued with the same idea reinforcing or maybe just  showing in observational way the reality of the fans. The good, the ODD, the bad,  all the elements of a whole theme.

Another interesting thing was the appropriation of the fandom to create different characters, and stories related to Harry Potter, and how this would served as means to help with the things that they as kids or adolescence are dealing in real life.  The born of a tale related to the place and context on which each one of the fans would express their own story related to the Harry Potter story.

In conclusion, I believe that as Jenkins point out, the appropriation in media of children is a big contribution to themselves and to adults to grow and learn from children. I think it would be ideal if adults may be more involved in this process, not in control, but as active participants. Also, I wouldn’t expect that this growing process it can go always in the right direction or as educational as adults may expect, it can be messy and there might be some misinformation and misunderstanding, but the result of what brings the children involvement in media literacy is more important to me than any other uncontrolled mistake that can happen along the way.