Tag Archives: Harry Potter

Blindspot 2018: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

The year is 1926 and Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, […]

On Location: The Millennium Bridge

The other day I had climbed to the very top of St Pauls Cathedral, and there were about a million tiny schoolchildren running around on the precariously high platform. One of the children cried out, “That’s the bridge from Harry Potter that gets destroyed by the Death Eaters!”, and I instantly knew he was right […]

On Location: Not Kings Cross Station

What I’ve learned so far in my adventures of Harry Potter tourism in the beautiful city of London is that the films took a lot of creative liberties with train stations. Firstly I wasn’t able to get to Platform 9 & 3/4, which is fair enough. Secondly, the location of Platform 9 & 3/4 is […]

On Location: The Leaky Cauldron(s)

In today’s edition of trying to get to places where Muggles aren’t allowed, I found the locations of not one, but two of the Leaky Cauldron – the famous pub from the Harry Potter series that leads to the wizard shopping district of Diagon Alley. This first Leaky Cauldron, from Harry Potter and the Prisoner […]

On Location: Trying to get to Hogwarts

Day one of my travels around London consisted of finding a couple of classic Harry Potter locations that were really exciting to see! Firstly, I tried (and failed) to get to Platform 9 & 3/4 – the magical platform of Kings Cross station where Harry and his friends head off on their train journey to […]