The Hogwarts Express has long since left for the year, but I'm here with the very end of this trio of literary tourism posts!
The amazing Knight bus! From the hall to the Express and to the backlot. After riding the double-decker buses in London and being thrilled with simply being on the second story, I would be so thrilled on the third story of this thing...
So this is the Dursley house with all these letters. Of course they weren't suspended by wires when they were filmed; it's just for display. There's something haunting in a really cool way about that display.
Dementor and inferi CGI and model stuff! Can you imagine wearing that Inferi backpack?
The HP artists are amazing... look at this full model of a merperson's head.
It's the breathing model of Voldemort and as creepy as anything it moves.
Tarantara, it's Diagon Alley!
I always rather thought this shop was underrated? In the original Pottermore, you could buy phials and things from it that served no real purpose, although clearly they would have been needed for potions? Pity.
The books are so pretty I want to go insiiiide!
The "architect of Hogwarts" surrounded by the four animals mascots of the Houses. Completely a movie invention; there is no "architect" character in the books. Part of me is a little bit bitter; if Rowena Ravenclaw made the extremely important moving staircases and her House is responsible for one of the four towers, why is the eagle facing the wall?
This is entire rooms full of concept art: sketches, colored pictures, paper models. This is a house-elf suit of armor. How cool is that? There were so many sketches on the walls, it was hard to see them all.
Here's the iconic (movie-iconic) bridge model!
And then. It hits you. It's dark, and there is clearly one thing in the center. It's Hogwarts. It's Hogwarts, and it's huge. It's magic.
What I would give for a wand so I could apparate back there and see it all again.
But it never truly ends. We are Book Eight.
Happy reading!
~Citali
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