Harry Potter Studios

Still awaiting my Hogwarts letter I decided to visit my dream school in the next best way: by visiting the Harry Potter Studios. 

For a late birthday present to my sister I arranged to take her to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in London. 

We have both been fans of Harry Potter for years, we've read the books and loved the films and couldn't wait to see the set. 

its the flying car!

We arrived in time for our booked tour time and queued up to go in where we could see Harry's first room under the stairs. 

Then we were shown a film and taken through to the Great Hall

We saw all the actors' real costumes in the Great Hall. 

Then went through to see the rest of the set

 The Yule Ball costumes and set from The Goblet of Fire

 The chocoholic standing in front of the chocolate feast!

 Wigs of all the characters 

and Hannah with the huge ladder Filch stands on to hang up Umbridge's rules. 

 In front of the school gates

The Leaky Cauldron 

The Gryffindor boys' dormitory 

 Ron Weasley's bed 

 Harry Potter's bed

A nice touch was letting the actors customise their bedside tables throughout the films.

 All the characters' wands

The Mirror of Erised seen in The Philosopher's Stone 

 The Gryffindor common room

The costumes of Harry, Hermione and Ron including Harry's invisibility cloak

 The clock

Dumbledore's office

Dumbledore's memories and the pensieve 

 lots of different props including the Philosopher's Stone and the Deluminator 

 The Goblet of Fire

The Leaky Cauldron corridor

 In Snape's office

Snape's costume 

The opening to the Chamber of Secrets

The Hogwarts staircases

Quidditch balls and costumes

 The Weasley's kitchen

 The knife, iron, washing pan and knitting moved themselves 

 Hannah and I by the kitchen

Instead of Cheerios...

Cheeri Owls!

all the animal actors who were involved in the productions including what their temperaments were and what they were trained for

Hagrid's house

 The Death Eaters

 All the newspapers, post, and mail

 The Ministry of Magic statue and entrance

 Delores Umbridge's pink office

We never noticed before but apparently as she gains more power her outfits become more pink

 We then went outside and found the Knight Bus

We had a Butterbeer

even though it tasted disgusting you've got to try one!

 We found the bridge

 and 4 Privet Drive

 and the Potters' house in Godrics Hollow

The Weasleys' car

 Hagrid's motorbike

Then we went inside and looked at some of the things made by the design team

 we all love Dobby

 Buckbeak!

We strolled down Diagon Alley

 I wish I could have come here for my Uni shopping instead!

 We saw all the sketches of everything made for the set

 and a model of the Hogwarts grounds

 There's also a massive Hogwarts grounds model - it took 8 weeks to build apparently 

Then the last room was one of my favourite places

The Wand Room

 We tried to find people's names and actors' names on the wand boxes 

We found most of the cast members names including Harry Potter's box 

 and J.K. Rowling's wand box

 Then in the gift shop we look at all the characters' wands

 I've got Hermione's wand

 and Hannah has got Dumbledore's wand, the Elder wand

 The Sorting Hat

and we found out that Daniel Radcliffe has small hands

Harry Potter fans get yourselves down to the Harry Potter Studios! Although I will never look at Quidditch the same way again, it was amazing seeing everything.