As a prefect — er, graduate student — you can even request to be served by waitstaff. Decorated here with a twinkling Christmas tree and dazzling white tablecloths, The Hall at King's is set for a British feast of roast turkey, pudding, and mince pies. You can imagine Harry and Ron opening Mrs. Weasley's Christmas jumpers at a place like this. While these players stay grounded, catching the Golden Snitch is still cause for celebration. Warner Bros. View this photo on Instagram. Flickr: Britain W.
Harry first learns to fly a broomstick on the green grass of Hogwarts' school grounds, filmed inside the walls of Alnwick Castle , where admission includes broomstick-riding lessons. This scenic castle, 30 miles from Newcastle, also appears as Hogwarts later in the series.
The movies show the train chugging across the real-life Glenfinnan Viaduct, where, in The Goblet of Fire , the Dementors stall the train and torture Harry. Other scenes filmed in the Highlands include a desolate hillside with Hagrid's stone hut in Glencoe, which was the main location for outdoor filming in The Prisoner of Azkaban. While the movies were filmed almost entirely in Britain, one of Ireland's most famous natural sights play a role in The Half-Blood Prince : The Cliffs of Moher , seen from the water, serve as the foreboding exterior of the cave where Harry and Dumbledore search for a horcrux.
Gene Openshaw is the co-author of the Rick Steves London guidebook. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Share. History Talk 3. Do you like this video? Play Sound. These tables were laid with glittering golden plates and goblets. At the top of the hall was another long table where the teachers were sitting The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight Harry looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great Hall didn't simply open on to the heaven.
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Portraits , statues and other artwork located on the ground floor. Duelling Club Captains. Grace is then read by a scholar and is entirely in Latin:. Some readers rushed through it, keen to get it over with, others really took their time. On the odd occasion, students would play drinking games and challenge each other to drink for as long as grace was being read.
The hall is closed every day at lunchtime between Despite the extravagant setting, Christ Church Great Hall serves some of the worst food out of any Oxford college. As a cost-conscious student, I was pretty pleased about this. Just like at Hogwarts, there is a long table stretching perpendicular to the long benches at the very top of the hall. This is where the professors and tutors eat and they even enter from a separate door to the side. In fact, the meal at formal hall cannot begin until the tutors have come in and are seated.
They too will be wearing gowns but theirs tend to be much fancier than those donned by the students.
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