Yesterday Amy, David (he's in London visiting), Devon, and I went to Harry Potter World!
Okay, okay, I know I said I'd just be studying, but let me explain:
Rachel's family is also here visiting and they had booked to tickets to go to HP World, but finding that they were much too tired from all their other sight-seeing excursions to go, generously gave us the tickets instead. No matter how much studying I had to do, there was no way I was going to turn down that opportunity!
Harry Potter world consisted of some awesome movies with the actors, lots of the sets, a creature shop showing how they made all the animals and elves, etc., all the props from the film, and more!
We all met up at Eusten station at the ungodly hour of 9AM, and we headed to Watson Junction. From there, a very special Harry Potter World coach bus came and picked us up to take us to the studios where they shot the films.
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| Our express bus ride to Harry Potter World! |
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| Rupert Grint's hand-prints! |
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| The cupboard under the stairs |
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| The Great Hall |
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| The Professors' Table |
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| Alan Rickman's (Snape) Wig |
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| The Gryffindor Boy's Dormitory |
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| The Mirror of Erised. (I should've brought my wool socks) |
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| Gryffindor's Fat Lady |
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| The Triwizard Cup and the Golden Egg. |
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| The entrance to Dumbledore's Office |
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| Dumbledore's Office |
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| The Pensieve |
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| The Sorting Hat |
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| The Sword of Gryffindor |
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| The Potion's Classroom |
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| These were some of the many portraits that covered the walls of the halls of Hogwarts---which are all actually portraits of the crew members of the film. |
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| The door to the Chamber of Secrets |
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| The door to the Gringott's vault |
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| Hagrid's hut |
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| The Burrow |
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| The Ministry of Magic Statue |
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| Umbridge's office |
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| The Black's family tree tapistry |
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| Butterbeer! (Actually cream soda with a marshmallow topping...super sweet, kinda gross) |
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Hagrid's (Sirius') motorbike
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| The Wesley's Enchanted Car. (In pretty good condition considering it was the in the Forbidden Forest for so long) |
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| Wow, we're flying!! (This is how Amy and I get to Vassar every semester.) |
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| The Knight Bus! |
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| Tom Riddle's tombstone. |
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| Number 4, Privet Drive |
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| The Hogwart's Bridge (only in the movies) |
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| Godric's Hollow, the Potter house. |
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| A chess piece from the game that guarded the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone |
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| Goblin masks |
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| Fawks |
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| Aunt Marge's blown-up body. |
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| Dobby! |
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| A Mandrake |
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| Aragog |
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| Buckbeak the hippogriff |
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| Diagon Alley! |
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| The giant model of Hogwarts used to film the exteriors in the film. (They shot it against a green screen and then added in background to make it look large-scale) |
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| The ridiculous gift shop |
And those are just the highlights! The tour took us about 2 hours to get through, it was an incredible. Thank you so much to Rachel's family for making it happen!
p.s. Dad, my fellow Harry Potter-obsessed fan, that post was just for you, I know you were jealous that the last one was for Mom. :)
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