Harry Potter, a name known around the globe strikes to be more than a fictional being. It’s an emotional bond that connects people to the magical worlds they have always wanted to be a part of. 

Thus it was not difficult for me to decide if I were to belong to an online community, it would definitely be that of a potter head. 

Pottermore is a website that records and store my virtual identity of a potterhead and Hogwarts participant by authenticating my identity by the standards of the Harry Potter world I.e. whether I was to be a Slitherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw among other things. 

J.K.Rowling is my childhood. So are the Griffindors, Slytherins, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws.

Harry Potter was never just “the boy who lived”. He was the boy who made us live, believe and love.

For us, Potterheads, Hogwarts was never a fictitious place and never will be, because that conjuring place is where we have spent our leisure hours in the common rooms, experienced sorrows, seen ourselves grow into beautiful and confident individuals.

We have figured out our patronuses, our spirits and channelized as well as kindled them like we were expected to.

For us students and teachers, each, had a specific value or teaching to give us. Each of them, like we strongly believe, had a unique charm about themselves.

Hermione was never just a nerd for us, even before she became “The Emma Watson”.

She was a muggle. She was us, who we are. She made us see how dedicated diligent and tenacious we are towards our fantasies, once we achieve them.

For each situation in my life, I have a reflex function of connecting it to Harry Potter (that’s how strong a Niche has been carved upon me)

At times when I am weak and have no anticipation. I reminiscence how

As a person born in 1998 I can guarantee that while the preceding generation saw the advent of technology, our generation witnessed the rapid pace at which it grew.
From Fax Machines, to pagers to Nokia phones to smartphones and the growing social media landscape, we witnessed it all.
Someone from our era can hold pride in being a part of as well as participating on the landscapes of MySpace, Orkut, Facebook and Instagram. We experienced text messages being overshadowed by the advent of Whatsapp.
I would describe my social media history to be very similar.
As a preteen I had access to Orkut which was a platform used to socialise with the blurred lines of privacy in the newly found magical land of social media existed, I would happily and frequent indulge in conversations and friendships with random strangers who I would have become acquainted to on the virtual space.
You see, the idea of talking to strangers came naturally to me as I had changed 5 schools by then.
Even though Orkut was a phase it expired soon enough owing to the blank and often complicated interface that became monotonous like how Farmville and Cityville on facebook did (No one cared about the notifications anymore)
Soon after I created a social media identity on Facebook that of an individual who is into art and literature by creating a feed full of quotes, and sketches (ever so often sharing the content I brewed too). But this time certain boundaries were set. As the concept of mutual friends came into being it was as if, a silver lining.
It only makes sense to accept a friend request when you had one mutual friend.
The bars for safety and privacy were set low but they had at least started to appear is why I refer to Facebook to be a paradigm shift into my social media behaviour.
This was followed by the very upcoming Instagram, while almost going through a phase of twitter (it always got too much too handle). My instagram profile progressed from aesthetics to more organised posts.
From posting literature enclosed in pictures to exercising it as captions for my favourite photos.
And I think that created the foundation for my social media behaviour.
While I indulge in conversations I prefer to maintain anonymity to strangers and avoid interactions on the other hand my stories form patterns as if they talk about all the if going around my head. From politics, to activism to even humour. But it represents me the way it is because growing up with social media I realised that owning up to one’s actual identity on the social media space, just like in real life, would get you more authentic followers. 

As the old man, once a movie editor, sat reminiscing, his grand daughter approached him with the new video she had just created in iMovies. It didn’t take him much time to spiral down the lane and back to the dates when film editing meant manually cutting and sticking ends of film strips. Technology has always helped man jump leaps with progressive steps. Whether it be going from the heavy, rigid and thick VCR to the all-accommodating Netflix. Technology facilitates ease and that’s what it did in the case of creating videos or films. With the advent of digital media it became possible to cut, join, trim frames with ease and at our disposal. This process in turn stimulates creativity and added different concepts to the idea and extent of video editing. The job profile going from skilled labour who cut films to tech experts who actively participate in graphic design.
The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the “invisible art” because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that he or she is not aware of the editor’s work.
With the advent of digital editing, film editors and their assistants have become responsible for many areas of filmmaking that used to be the responsibility of others. For instance, in past years, picture editors dealt only with just that—picture. Sound, music, and (more recently) visual effects editors dealt with the practicalities of other aspects of the editing process, usually under the direction of the picture editor and director. However, digital systems have increasingly put these responsibilities on the picture editor