Introduction.

But are just the books and the films the causes of Harry Potter's success?

You will be able to answer that question by the end of this WebQuest, and your classmates will also become experts in the Harry Potter area thanks to your work.

You have been hired by an important toy enterprise to create a Harry Potter table game. You can design the rules of the game as you want, but it must be a trivia game. In order to create the game, you will work in pairs:

The private detective and the bookworm.

After you've designed the game, the enterprise has decided to test it by playing with a group of your classmates. If they don't have fun or don't end up knowing at least twice as they did about the Harry Potter world, your game won't be approved.

You need to do your best to create the best Harry Potter game, so read carefully through this WebQuest and complete your tasks!

Process.

FIRST PART: In pairs
1. Choose a partner and decide who is going to be assigned each role: the private detective and the bookworm.
2. Talk about what you already know about the topic that you have been assigned.
3. Use the "Resources" that have been selected for each role.
4. Follow the instructions and do the tasks for each of the roles.

ROLE 1: The private detective
You must read through the following information and write a report which holds the most interesting facts, in your opinion, about:

— The Harry Potter movies
— The biography of J.K. Rowling
— The fanfiction phenomena

Complete the task to help you in your research.

Resources
— J.K. Rowling's Official Webpage
— The Leaky Cauldron: Harry Potter News
— The Official Harry Potter Website
— Lapsus Calami - Slip of the Pen Publications
— Madam Scoop's Index to J.K. Rowling Interviews
— FictionAlley | Lumos Dissendium - Dictionnary of Terms

ROLE 2: The bookworm
You must explore the following website about the books and write an inform which includes:

— The main characters of the saga and a short fact-file about each one
— A short summary about each one of the books
— A list of the most important places and the things that happened there

Try this quiz to help you in your research.

Resources
— The Harry Potter Lexicon

5. Using the information you have collected, you and your partner must extract as much questions as possible and write them down, with their corresponding answers, in a notebook.
6. Divide the questions in different categories according to their content: three categories the least, six categories the most. Discuss within your group the number and the names of the categories.
7. Elaborate a design for the trivia cards: you can use pictures from the internet or draw your own. Once designed, fill the trivial cards with one question from each category.
8. Create a design for the board and the counters of the game inspired by the scenery and the facts you've looked up. Build them using the materials available in school. Read through these links to find more useful information that can help you:

— Trivial Pursuit | The Most Popular Trivia Game in the World
— Harry Potter's World of Magic Theme Park: The Marauder's Map
— HPL: Wizard Places

9. Think about the rules of the game and write them down in order to fill the players in.
10. Don't forget to read the Evaluation to know how your work will be evaluated.

SECOND PART: In groups of four
1. Pick two students from out of your group.
2. Explain them the rules of the game you have designed and answer any question they have.
3. Divide yourselves in order to guide one of your classmates each during the game.
4. Write down every answer your player guesses and every answer he/she doesn't.
5. Once the game is finished, elaborate a quiz about Harry Potter and make the players do it. You can use some of the questions you wrote in the trivia cards.
6. Check the test out and see how much about the Harry Potter world have the players learned. Draw a diagram graphic which shows the difference between the information the players had before and after the game.

The whole game will be evaluated in group by your teacher, who will witness the first play with the two students from out of your group, and will check out:
— Coherence and correctness of the rules
— Gramatical and spelling correctness in the trivia cards and the quiz
— Care taken in the visual presentation of the board and the design of the cards

Conclusion.

You also learnt about the fan phenomena this saga has generated. You could have a good time imagining and writing some fanfiction about Harry Potter.

Finally, you learnt about J.K. Rowling and the work that has been made in the movies. You can have real fun by surfing her website or by watching the movies.

You just created a whole new trivia game. Try and build more about subjects that may interest you!

Credits.

— This webquest has been designed for the study of English as a foreign language. The required level is pre-intermediate or intermediate: Bachillerato (16, 17 years old), and also 4º ESO (15 years old).
— The layout is based on the webquest Romeo and Juliet by Isabel Pérez.