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Travel Inspiration for Movie Buffs

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00:02 The world of Harry Potter is set

00:03 in a fictionalized version of the UK

00:05 and is teeming with things like dragons, potions, and trolls.

00:09 However, many of the settings featured in the series

00:12 are real-life destinations that you can visit.

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00:17 Arguably one of the coolest moments in Harry Potter history

00:23 happens when Harry first watches Ron disappear

00:25 through a brick wall at Platform 9 3/4.

00:28 However, the scene was actually filmed

00:30 between Platforms 4 and 5

00:32 at King's Cross Station in London.

00:34 Here, you can find the luggage trolley

00:35 embedded in the wall, as well as the Harry Potter shop,

00:38 which sells things like time turners

00:39 and Hogwarts school uniforms.

00:41 Sure, there are soul-sucking demons

00:45 and even time travel is possible

00:46 in the Harry Potter universe.

00:49 But is there anything more magical

00:50 than those shots of Harry traveling by train

00:52 from London to Hogwarts?

00:53 In real life, the Hogwarts Express

00:56 is West Coast Railway's Jacobite steam train,

00:59 which takes travelers on an 84-mile round trip

01:02 through some of Scotland's most stunning landscapes.

01:05 During the first and second Harry Potter movies,

01:09 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

01:11 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,

01:13 Anna Castle in Northumberland stood in

01:14 for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

01:17 You might recognize the outer bailey of the castle

01:19 as the place where Harry first learned to fly

01:22 and the inner bailey as the place where he and Ron

01:23 crash-landed the Weasley's flying car.

01:26 While exterior shots of Hogwarts were taken at Anna Castle,

01:31 the interiors were filmed at Durham Cathedral,

01:33 a proto-Gothic English cathedral.

01:35 Its chapter house was used as Professor McGonagall's

01:38 classroom and many hallway scenery were filmed here.

01:41 In addition to being a Harry Potter filming location,

01:44 it's also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

01:46 Like many movies, most of the magic that took place

01:50 in Harry Potter took place on a movie set.

01:52 You can visit some of Harry Potter's most dazzling sets,

01:55 including Gringotts Wizardry Great Hall,

01:57 Diagon Alley, and Hogwarts Great Hall

01:59 at the Warner Brothers Studio Tour in London.

02:01 Remember in the Sorcerer's Stone

02:05 when Harry used his invisibility cloak

02:07 to sneak in the restricted section of the Hogwarts Library?

02:10 In real life, that filming location

02:11 is the Duke Humphrey section

02:13 of Oxford University's Old Bodleian Library.

02:16 The Bodleian was also transformed into an infirmary

02:19 in the same film after Harry's first big showdown

02:21 with Voldemort.

02:22 (upbeat music)

02:25 In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,

02:28 Harry and Dumbledore embark on an epic journey

02:30 to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes.

02:33 In the sixth installment of the series,

02:34 they travel to a scary cave to find Slytherin's Locket,

02:37 which holds a piece of Voldemort's soul.

02:40 In real life, this dramatic coastline

02:41 is actually the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

02:43 Thank you for watching this video by far.

02:47 If you want to find out more information

02:48 on how to visit these amazing sites,

02:50 we actually have details on how to visit them

02:52 in our article about Harry Potter filming locations

02:55 on afar.com.

02:57 For more travel inspiration,

02:58 including other movie locations you can visit in real life,

03:00 like Game of Thrones and Star Wars,

03:03 head over to afar.com or check out more videos

03:05 on our channel.

03:06 As always, don't forget to like this video

03:08 and subscribe on your way out.

03:10 Safe travels.

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