great hall

It is about a specific place, not just a plot.

The fans are drawn to the corridors, the specific descriptions of food in the Great Hall, the weather in the Scottish Highlands, and the overarching feeling that you belong to a hidden community.

The quiz notes that this fandom is highly social and deeply categorical.

Oh, the sorting.

Howe recalled, "I was struck by the dreadful idleness of these poor people." So he focused on improving their daily lives, handing out magazines, toys, and sewing materials.

He also introduced outdoor seating, playgrounds, educational programs, and concerts, and he spruced up the Great Hall with potted plants and paintings depicting iconic events from American history.

And Howe's emphasis on living conditions became more urgent with the outbreak of war in Europe.

After World War I erupted in the summer of nineteen fourteen, immigration to the United States slowed to a trickle.

The result was that at midnight on the first day of every month, steamships carrying thousands of hopeful immigrants raced toward New York Harbor, competing to dock as soon as possible before that month's quota was exhausted.

Those who arrived even minutes too late risked being sent back home.

[baby crying] Imagine it's July 1923 on Ellis Island, and you're facing an immigration inspector in the crowded Great Hall.

You've just arrived after visiting relatives in Poland, and you're eager to get back to your family in Pennsylvania, especially after giving birth to a baby girl on board the ship only a few days ago.

So this is right at the very beginning.

Um, basically, uh, they're all in the Great Hall.

They're getting the kids out.

They're like giving orders for who to go where.

Again, we're in chapter 31, The Battle of Hogwarts.

We left off with Harry having a vision of Voldemort at the gates of the Hogwarts grounds.

And we pick up at the beginning of this chapter, where McGonagall is giving out orders in the Great Hall as Harry scans for Ron and Hermione.

Still can't find out where they went.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was at Great Hall, I think.

Yeah, Great Hall.

I love Great Hall.

Uh, always go there whenever we tour.

We may be touring next year, so we will definitely stop in Toronto as we always do.

In nineteen oh six, the famous British science fiction writer H.G. Wells toured Ellis Island while researching his next book.

Watching immigrants pack the Great Hall, he asked the new commissioner Robert Watchorn, "You don't think they'll swamp you?" Watchorn, who had come to America himself as a young man with little money, replied, "Do you expect me now I'm here to shut the door on any other poor chaps who want to start with hope in it in the New World?" Watchorn was a former English miner who immigrated to the United States through Castle Garden in eighteen eighty at the age of twenty-two.

Like many of his fellow immigrants, he was a victim of exploitation common at the time.

In his case, a pie vendor refused to give him change, and when he tried to retrieve his money, a police officer threatened to arrest him.