Harry Potter World with Sammy

Sammy read all seven Harry Potter books in less than a year (she finished them over a year ago)  and then watched all the movies. So as a reward for reading all the books (Thanks to Aunt Cindy for giving us ALL the books a few years back), Charles took her to Harry Potter World last week. I have uploaded all of the pictures and have asked Sammy to write the captions. Sammy: As you can see, it's pouring rain and here I am in the car waiting to go to Harry Potter World. I can hardly hold back my excitement!  

In this picture you can see 'wizard chess' pieces.

This is the actual set for the cupboard under the stairs! (everything in every picture was used for one of the movies)

If you look closely you can see the faint outline of the real Harry Potter glasses!

This is the Great Hall and you can see the set tables. When they made the movies, to fill the plates that filled themselves, they would stop videoing and fill all the plates with REAL food.

In most movies when things look like they are made out of stone, they are not. They are made out of plastering. But the great hall floor was made out of real stone otherwise it would not be able to hold up the weight of all the props and Hogwarts students. The walls are made out of plaster.

If you look at the costumes, the middle one was worn by the character Draco Malfoy in the actual movies!

This is Hagrid.

Dumbledore is making a speech.

Behind me is the "sorting hat" sitting on the stool as it would have done when it was sorting the students into the various houses.

Hagrid and Snape

Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore 

Boys' dormitory set

This is how they made the corridor in the leaky cauldron look very long.

This is the mirror where you see what you most desire. Harry saw his parents in this mirror.

It didn't work for me. I just saw myself. Perhaps that is what I most desire! Ha ha!



This is the Gryffindor common room with some of the costumes.



This is Dumbledore's office. Most of the books in his office were actually just phone books with leather covers.

This is the Gringott's vault door used in movie 1 and another movie (can't remember which other one).

This is the secret chamber door which only two people in the world know how to open.



Off to the right, you can see picture frames. Those are most of the pictures used in the movies. Some of the frames were just frames with a green screen in them to create the image of moving pictures.

Me and the Hogwarts Express on platform 9 3/4



Professor Umbridge's office. When painting the tiles for the wall, they had to use about 9 different shades of pink to create the look of the tiles.

This is the triple decker night bus where Harry stayed during one of the movies. I went inside and saw all the beds.

I am knocking on 4 Privet Drive door which was Harry's home for 11 years.

This is the Hogwarts bridge which was situated over part of the waters around Hogwarts.



Diagon Alley

I am at Ollivander's hoping I will get the wand that suits me....

This model of Hogwarts looks small but it is actually very big. This is how they created the illustration of the castle from the outside.

When I was there, they made it look like day and night. At night, they actually had light in the little windows moving from one window to another like someone was walking through the halls with a candle. In conclusion, I would recommend that you go there someday. Warning: I took three hours without sitting down to go all the way through it. I bought a poster for my room, some every flavour beans and the time thing that Hermione uses to get from one time to another.