HARRY POTTER
Spent ages at the Studio, looking through thousands of props and collecting the stamps for the Harry Potter Passports (unfortunately I did not have a passport, but I did manage to collect all the stamps because my backpack carries many things). There were three pieces of the studio, two indoor stages and an outdoor stage where some of the larger props hang out, like the Knight Bus and the Ford Angelia.
HARRY POTTER
The tour was amazing and I got to wander around and learn about everything from prop-making and makeup to the animal actors that were crucial to the films. There is a room at the end of the door that is floor to ceiling with Ollivander wands, each one emboldened with a name of one of the people that helped to make the magic real to the rest of us, over 4000 names in total. There is also a model (1/64 size) of Hogwarts at the end, and I cannot even begin to describe how amazing the castle was.
HARRY POTTER
Harry Potter follows the trials and adventures of an orphan boy wizard from the ages of 11-17 and fulfills several of the requirements for a school story(as Harry essentially attends a boarding school), something that is not particularly common outside of British Literature. As the story progresses and Harry ages, so do the complexity and depth of the stories, moving from the space of children's literature into the realm of Young Adult.
Harry Potter is more than that, however. Harry gripped the nation and then the world. The seven books and eight movies (in addition to the supplemental stories and texts as well as the website Pottermore) have all contributed to the sense of wonder and awe that the Harry Potter novels inspire.
Even now, seven years after the publishing of the last book and three years since the last movie, Harry Potter popularity has not faded. The Studio Tour was full of people. Harry Potter is an enduring presence that will be a part of the literary landscape for years to come.
The stories we love
best do live in us forever.
So, whether you come back
by page or by the big screen,
Hogwarts will always be there
to welcome you home.
-J.K. Rowling
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