Sunday, May 20, 2012

Mental Map


J.K. Rowling once sketched the setting for the Harry Potter series, also known as Hogwarts and the surrounding area.  Her mental map of the setting was then introduced on The Prisoner of Azkaban DVD.  Although it was seen on the DVD it was photographed at a strange angle, and not 100 percent readable.  Her original map was then seen again in The Daily Telegraph magazine in February 2010, however this map was far too small and therefore again not decipherable.  The mental map seen above is a “combined and traced over [of] the two.”  Mental maps are highly abstracted, and are often drawn simply for his/her eyes only as they are based upon someone’s interpretation of a given environment.  As you can see from this description, the above image of J.K. Rowling's Hogwarts map is in fact a mental map. 
The map URL is: http://members.madasafish.com/~cj_whitehound/Fanfic/map_of_Hogwarts/introduction.htm

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