London Trip, Part 2: The Making of Harry Potter Studio Tour

Left to Right: Entrance outside; Entrance Inside with Christmas Tree; Gift shop; Collection of Wands in Gift shop; J.K. Rowling Quote; Cupboard Under The Stairs.

Left to Right: The Great Hall Entrance; Inside The Great Hall; Gryffindor uniforms; costumes for Hagrid and Flich; costumes for Mcgonagall, Dumbledoor and Snape; Sedway, Moody and Trelawny.

Left to Right: Cloke of Invisibility; Yule Ball costumes; Ron’s Yule Ball costume; More costumes; Harry Potter’s costumes; a flaming Christmas pudding.

Left to Right: Gryffindor door common room (top two); Gryffindor dormitories (bottom two).

Left to Right: clock; Wizard’s Chest piece; Wall of Decrees and long ladder; Various magical props; stairwell; Mirror of Erised.

Snape’s (and Later Slughorn’s) Potion class set.

Left: Portraits. Right: Animal Actors.

Dumbledoor’s Office.

Various Doors.

Left to Right: Quidditch display; Horcrux display; Room of Requirement Deatheater prop; Moody’s chest; Remus Suitcase.

Showing how the special effects were made.

Top: The Burrow (two photos). Bottom: Malfoy Manor and Umbridge’s Office.

Top: Might is Magic Statue and Ministry Entrance. Bottom: Ministry interior and Prophecy ball props.

Left to Right (Outside): Me in a Waterproof poncho; Potters’ Cottage; Hogwarts Bridge; The Night Bus.

Left to Right: Various Goblin heads; Fawkes the Phoenix (two photos); Greyback’s face; Werewolve; various props (including Dobby’s head).

Various Magical Creatures.

To scale Actor/Actress Models.

Diagon Alley 1.

Diagon Alley 2: The Weasley’s.

The level of detail for the films was incredible. Design sketches, paper models, product design – everything designed from scratch based on the books.