Story Planning: The Enchanted River

• I am going to use this week to plan out my story for next week, including my story for my storybook. One comment I received on my comment wall is that the students in the class want to see more of the background to my version of the Hogwarts story. To do this I am going to introduce the different characters and how my new Lord Voldemort. 
• Here are my potential story ideas: 
• I like the idea of involving the Ganga River in my stories: either manifested as a person or as a river 
• It would be interesting to have the Ganga River be the river that the Hogwarts students must travel on to get to Hogwarts
• (AKA the freshmen have to take the boats to get to the castle) 
• This would potentially involve multiple short stories, because I wouldn't need a whole section about the river. 
• It would be cool to do a past and present situation where I show the four brothers crossing the river and what they felt and then jump forward and show Harry and the gang crossing the river 
• My next story idea is one where I introduce Ravana as the new Lord Voldemort (the bad guy, for those of you who haven't read/seen Harry Potter!) 
• I chose Ravana because of the different things he did in the Ramayana reminded me of the bad things Lord Voldemort did. 
• My next and last story idea is surrounded with the perceived hierarchy present in both stories. 
• Some wizards think they are better than muggles 
• Some Indian families think they are better than others
• For example, when the monk visits the different women and they each have a different afflicted child. The only one to have a normal child is the servant, who would have been seen as less in the story.  
• All of this mixed with the wizards over muggle theme goes back to the idea of Birthright and what you are born with over what you make of yourself. 

Mahabharata by Narayan

The Ramayana by R. K. Narayan

The boats crossing the river to Hogwarts. Web Source

Reading Notes: Epified Mahabharata-Part A

• I like the idea of involving the Ganga River in my stories: either manifested as a person or as a river 
• It would be interesting to have the Ganga River be the river that the Hogwarts students must travel on to get to Hogwarts
• (AKA the freshmen have to take the boats to get to the castle) 
• Shantanu would be a interesting ghost to bring into my story
• It is interesting the emphasis that this story places on hierarchy and order
• The sons are in order for the throne
• Some people feel they are born higher than others. 
• _____________ (need to look up name) vowed to never get married, the prince did this to give his father happiness
• The king then granted his son a boon and declared that his victorious son would be able to declare the time of his death 
• Without this, death could not touch him 
• Am I the only one who sees the parallel between this and the Deathly Hallows? 
• The blind king is an interesting character 
• It is interesting that these different kings are born blind, pale and normal all from how the woman greeted the sage 
• The servant girl being the only to give brith to a normal baby is kind of like a muggle-born
• Some wizards think that wizards who come from muggles are less then them
• This goes back into the theme of "birthright" as mentioned above

The Ganga river. Web Source 

Mahabharata by Narayan