"Mobiliarbus!" is a spell which is used to move a tree from one location to another. Thank you, Grandpa and Madelyn, for transporting shrubberies from your computer to mine. I said anyone who sent me a picture of a shrubbery would get a....something. How about a tour of Hogwarts?
On that note,
Welcome to Hogwarts!
While on our trip to London we had to stop by Harry Potter Land (Warner Brothers Studios) to tour the movie sets used in the filming of all the Harry Potter movies.
The first stop on our tour is the Great Hall!
Where, yes, Pixie Puffs are part of a complete breakfast!
Yay! Plates!
It was fun to see Harry's "under-the-stairs" room in actual size because it was really, really tiny! It's a good thing he didn't live here after he came back in the second movie, because he would not have fit!
Here's Harry's new room at Hogwarts. If you look closely, you can see Ron's trunk (with R.W. on it) under the bed on the right.
A crazy hallway from one of the movies was actually an optical illusion. It looks like a really long hallway, but it was actually really short with a tiny chair in it.
Clock.
I didn't see Harry's parents in the Mirror of Erised. But I did see mine.
Dumbledore's office...
the Potion's Room...
This is the crazy vault lock. It's so awesome!
This is the huge statue for the Ministry of Magic.
I love this room! It's the pink plush room with a bunch of cat plates on the wall belonging to Dolores Umbridge, the weird pink teacher.
And here is the promised triple-decker bus!
It goes to all destinations (but nothing underwater, of course.)
And, of course, we had to try the Butterbeer.
It tastes like cream soda with some sort of butterscotch foam on top. Mmmm!
When you exited the tour, they had a ton of wand boxes with all the names of every person who worked on any of the movies. It was amazing to see how many people were involved in the making of these films!
There are Harry Potter related things all over England if you know where to look for them. Apparently, the City of London School is where Daniel Radcliff when to High School.
We took a day trip to Oxford. A lot of the colleges here were the basic inspiration for Hogwarts. This is the most famous of the colleges in Oxford, Christ's Church College.
The students who go here live here, go to school here, eat here, etc., just like Hogwarts.
Random circle of flowers...
Cool windows.
There was ivy growing down the whole side of the building.
This inner courtyard at Christ's Church College was actually used to film many scenes and is supposed to be a courtyard in Hogwarts.
Does it look familiar?
What about this? Hmmm....a Dining Hall...this is what was inspiration for the Great Hall in Harry Potter.
Yay. Plates.
This is the stairway that leads to the Dining Hall at Oxford, but they also used it to film the stairway leading up to the Great Hall in Hogwarts.
This is the church in Christ's Church College.
The students would go to church here, too.
This is the central quad of Christ's Church. If it looks familiar, I don't think it's in Harry Potter, but it was used in filming the old movie "Chariots of Fire."
This is the area where the students live. Kind of like the dorms.
We peeked inside a few other colleges. Each one had a similar layout.
This is a tower at Magdalen College.
From here, you can rent a punt, and test your skills.
A punt is a long boat you steer with an even longer pole.
Here's my dad. If you notice, he always has a really weird expression on his face. This is why he is rarely in my blogs.
Plenty of leg room for everyone!
We saw many interesting things on our trip down the canal. Such as daffodils...
Trees...
Low bridge...
DUCK!
For anyone who didn't duck at the low bridge, they had life preservers in case you fell in.
Luckily, we didn't.
Join me next time where you will learn that everything in London may not be what it seems...
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