We are Potterheads. Do you know what 'Potterhead' means? It means the fans of HARRY POTTER.
Since we have promised to show the shooting place in popular films , GET READY for the breathtaking views taken in our next film which is HARRY POTTER.
Kings Cross Station (Platform 9 3/4)
…That handy train line will then whisk you straight to
Kings Cross, the bustling terminus at which Harry, Hermione, Ron and friends
board the Hogwarts’ Express. Obviously, Platform 9 3/4 doesn’t really exist
(sorry kids) but there is a BRONZE PLAQUE marking the spot where it would stand, and a luggage cart
halfway through the wall that’s ideal for photo ops. In a parallel world, Harry
would have boarded the train just down the road, at the station J.K. Rowling
was visualising when she wrote the book (“I was actually thinking of Euston,”
she told the BBC, “so anyone who’s been to the real platforms 9 and 10 in
King’s Cross will realise they don’t bear a great resemblance to the platforms
in the book”). The exteriors are different too – Harry and Ron’s Ford Anglia
ride began next door outside the much more scenic St. Pancras. If they’d
boarded the train there, they’d have ended up in Paris.
Location: Harrow School (Professor Flitwick’s Classroom )
Hogwarts’ tiny Charms professor, Filius Flitwick,
instructs his pupils in the art of Wingardium Leviosa in Harrow School’s oldest
classroom, the Fourth Form Room that dates back to 1615. It’s a great place to
kick off a Pott-tour of London locations. Harrow has lots in common with
Hogwarts: a sport that defies logic (Fives), some natty uniforms and a direct
train from King’s Cross, albeit on the entirely steam-free Metropolitan Line.
Like Hogwarts, it has an entrance exam, although you don’t need to do magic to
pass it.
Cafe Attack (Location: Piccadilly Circus/Shaftesbury Ave)
The cafe where Harry, Hermione and Ron’s have their
fraught late-night cuppa is buried somewhere on a Leavesden soundstage, but
even if it did exist we can’t recommend going there – it’s crawling with Death
Eaters and the service is terrible. It’s a simple business to follow in their
Deathly Hallows footsteps, though. Just take the tube to Piccadilly Circus,
pick the exit marked ‘Shaftesbury Avenue’ and head that way.
Ministry Of Magic (Location: Great Scotland Yard, Scotland Place )
As Rufus Scrimgeour (Bill Nighy) intones at the beginning
of The Deathly Hallows, it’s a time of murder, disappearances and raids, so
it’s fitting that the Ministry of Magic’s exterior shots were filmed at Great
Scotland Yard where such things are all in a day’s work. It’s an easy trip
across the West End, if your flying car is in for a service, follow in the
footsteps of Arthur Weasley and take the tube to shiny Westminster Tube
Station. From there, it’s a short mosey along Whitehall to Scotland Place.
Sadly, you won’t find the red phonebox that Harry and Mr Weasley use to enter
the Ministry in The Order Of The Phoenix, but, as you’ll discover in The
Deathly Hallows, there’s a new route in anyway.
(Millennium Bridge) Location: St. Pauls
Okay guys, that's all about Harry Potter. Okay then, BYE!
It took a really long time to stop the Millennium
footbridge wobbling, and what do the Death Eaters do but turn up and knock it
down. Boo! Happily, it’s standing again now and you can walk across it without
(much) fear of a watery death plunge a la Half-Blood Prince. From the bridge
you can just spy the Gothic spires of the Houses of Parliament, past which
Harry and his fellow members of Dumbledore’s army whizz on broomsticks in The
Order Of The Phoenix. Lambeth Bridge, across which the Knight Bus squeezes in The
Prisoner Of Azkaban, is only a bend in the river away upstream.
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