The 15th anniversary of the release of Harry Potter, I went back to the wizarding world

Wellington 2021-10-19 10:14:35

It's been 15 years since the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

For our group of fans who grew up with Harry, these memorable time nodes have become our calendar.

The studio tour of Warner Bros. The Making of Harry Potter in the suburbs of London is from morning to night, and fans from all over the world gather here for a pilgrimage. It was ten days in advance that I was able to book the tickets.



This is undoubtedly a journey of recharging faith.

Just like the first time I arrived in London, I rushed to King's Cross Station. I queued for more than an hour in the cold winter to get a glimpse of King's Cross Station. Knowing that there is no difference between the official store and the Taobao store’s Made in China, it’s still in the dozens. I want to buy everything at a high price. This desperate impulse will make people have a long-lost pleasure. If you can buy happiness with money, this is probably the ultimate meaning of money.

People

around come and go, and some people are destined to die without disease.

During the years I grew up with Harry, I went from a primary school student who knew why I knew everything to myself, to an adult who had a lot of helplessness in the face of life. In the fifteen years during this period, we met a lot of people, missed a lot of people, will love and hate.

So looking at a partner like Harry who will never change or leave, it becomes a part of our memory.



Assemble from Victoria Station in London and arrive at the Harry Potter exclusive studio of Warner Bros. It takes about an hour by car. The round-trip fare and the tour package are 45 pounds per person. Due to the capacity of the venue, one day is a limited flow of batches. I leave at 4:10 pm on Saturday. The official visit time is from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm on the last train, although it does not seem to be too big. The venue, but the lingering visits made time seem extraordinarily rushed.






Tickets are valid on the same day, so there is no limit to the stay time. If you can book an early ticket, you can arrive early and spend the whole day.

Before we set off, we thought it would be occupied by children, but when we arrived at the studio, we unexpectedly found that there was everything available for men, women, and children. Yes, we left the everyday world of Muggles and came to the magical world. Many people wear round-frame glasses of the same style as Harry, how many little wizards and great wizards walk around in magic robes, and the white-haired aunts are also having fun on the flying broomstick.





Compared with the Harry Potter theme park in Florida, the appearance of these two studios looks ugly, but they actually carry most of the shooting tasks of the Harry Potter series.

Little Harry, Little Hermione, and Ron Little met and grew up here, completing the magical journey from the Sorcerer’s Stone to the Deathly Hallows. The Deathly Hallows (Part 2) was officially opened to the public in 2012, one year after its release. As a result, it has become an important holy place for Ha Mi.





Things that are too familiar have become difficult to describe. Starting from the third grade of elementary school, every summer vacation I have to read Harry Potter’s original book from beginning to end until I see Rowling’s writing "It looks like a much better one." "The summer", when I regained my consciousness, I saw the sun piercing and the cicadas screaming, and I felt that my vacation had just begun.

This habit lasted until the third year of high school. I no longer remember those stories after I read it many times. I just remembered the days when I made my own wand out of paint with branches, and I missed it with a smile.



When the

imagination becomes real, it seems that everything you see is a climax.

The phone kept taking pictures along the way, no matter the composition, no matter whether the hands were shaking or not, I just wanted to record everything I saw.

Starting from the stairwell where Harry used to live at No. 4 Privet Road, to the Hogwarts Auditorium, and then from the Hogwarts gate, to the Gryffindor common room, the boys’ dormitory, those in Hogwarts The paintings on the walls, the moving stairs, the clock tower where Dumbledore fell, the principal’s office, Hagrid’s cabin, the potions classroom, the Ministry of Magic, and then to Diagon Alley...

everything appeared again and again. What I saw in the movie in my imagination, this time really came before my eyes.




There are two large indoor and outdoor studios in the studio. The first shed mainly shows Hogwarts, the main scenes and props of Hogwarts, and also involves the Burrow, Malfoy House, Ministry of Magic, and Phoenix Ministry; there are more interactive methods, the most worthy of experience It is the video synthesis of the flying broomstick, which can record a segment of a movie scene on the spot, and provide magic robe for use. It is also very expensive for dozens of pounds.





After the Ministry of Magic is platform 9 and 3/4, a model train of the Hogwarts Express is provided. You can get on the train and take a tour. After platform 9 and 3/4, there is a dining place, which is connected to the outdoor area. , Provide butter beer. Outdoors exhibited the Knight Bus, No. 4 Privet Road, Nami House, Hogwarts suspension bridge, and chess pieces and props in the Philosopher’s Stone.



The

second indoor shed shows the process of making a large number of props, "The Book of Monsters", a large number of electronic circuits behind the eagle head, horse body, winged beast, and giant Models of snake Nanis, mermaid, octopus spider, etc., as well as various design drawings that will suffocate you. Although the castle has not been built, the designers have implemented them on the drawings. The biggest highlight is the near-end simulation restoration of Diagon Alley and a certain scale model of Hogwarts, which took a lot of time to visit in a short distance.



What the

studio can restore is only fragments, and will not actually build a Hogwarts. The props are all alone, scattered around the studio, and It is in these fragmented clues that we can restore the entire magical world.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall put Harry on Privet Drive. For the first time, Hagrid took Harry into Diagon Alley. The Griffindor Sword was pulled out of the Sorting Hat, Quidditch for the first time. Odd games, the same growing troubles as ours in the Rubik's Cube world, the trivial and co-death between friends, the beginning of love and heartbreak.




From the 11th to the 15th birthday, every year I look forward to an owl that can fly from a distance, imagining that I can also become the lucky one of Hogwarts, the lion of Gryffindor, and an extraordinary person. Magician.

The coolness of waving a magic wand can have a flying broom of his own, can be transformed, can be invisible, and can become the omnipotent one wants to be.

It wasn't until the end of adolescence that I realized that this dream would not come true. You see, it's always like this. Some stories ended before they even started.





On the way back, I was listening to a radio station about John Lennon. The moonlight rubbed into the night, and the warmth of stand by me in my ears made people feel warm and comforting.

It's like a sentence written by Rowling when I export it, and I refuse to fade away in my mind: The stories we love best do live in us forever, so whether you come back by page or by the screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Magic does not die.

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Extended Reading
  • Jonatan 2022-03-23 09:01:11

    I like this one the most. I watched it several times. The performance of a few children is so good and so natural.

  • Pauline 2021-10-20 18:59:08

    The first movie is so good, it's almost 20 years after 2020 0818 The movie theater saw 3d

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone quotes

  • Hagrid: If that dolt of a cousin of yours, Dudley, gives you any grief, you could always, um, threaten him with a nice pair of ears to go with that tail of his.

    Harry: But, Hagrid, we're not allowed to do magic away from Hogwarts. You know that.

    Hagrid: I do, but your cousin don't, do he?

  • [last lines]

    Hermione: Feels strange to be going home, doesn't it?

    Harry: [looking at Hagrid] I'm not going home. Not really.