Wow! couldn't believe it! I thought the great hall was good, but Diagon Alley was pretty stunning.
Not
normally the kind of person to get excited about films and only really
going along to the Warner Bros. studio tour for the kids, there was
something kind of Magical about walking down Diagon Alley.
Not because of "Harry Potter walked down here", but more of the scale of the whole thing. The shops looked real and it was like a walking back in time, except all the other people with their walk about electronic tour guides strapped to their ears.
The kids were mesmerised. The four that I went with didn't leave their cameras alone. Kara took more photos than me, and pretty much spent the day snapping away. It was probably the most enthusiastic I have seen her about anything apart from her Bunny!
She spent the day walking around with her friend Evie (the Harry Potter enthusiast complete with robes) clutching her Magic wand that Grandad had made for her. Every so often she would nearly take someone's eye out with it whilst taking a photo and thrusting the wand above her head.
In Diagon Alley they spent the time looking in the shop windows taking photos and then taking more photos, from the Weasley's joke shop to the wand shop, even the owls cages were hanging up outside the store.
What I found great was the attention to detail and the craftsmanship
that went into the entire set. Even down to the dust in the street that
was put in the correct place, something that we probably wouldn't see
on screen.
It was such a magical place, but it was such a shame that I wasn't standing there with the other members of the cast in the hustle and bustle of the filming. We had a great day and it was well worth the time and energy spent going there.
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