"Literary Links" is a series of posts celebrating
Britain's wonderful links with great authors, dramatists and poets.
The Harry Potter movies also used Oxford locations in the Divinity School and in New College.
The
Divinity School is another of Oxford's great medieval masterpieces with its
impressive vaulted roof built between 1427 – 1483. Beneath this roof is where students
once debated with their masters to earn their degrees.
Harry Potter fans will recognise the Divinity School as both
the Hogwarts Hospital and the dance hall where Professor McGonagall attempts to
teach the students how to dance. The
ancient library above is used by Harry, Ron and Hermione to find out details about
Nicholas Flamel and Polyjuice Potion.
The cloisters of New College, with the huge tree in the middle, served as the
setting for a number of Harry Potter scenes.
It was here that Mad Eye Moody turned Malfoy into a ferret, where pupils
wear ‘Potter stinks’ badges, where Harry shares the secret with Cedric Diggory
that their first challenge was dragons, and where Harry calls Ron a ‘git’.
This
is an excerpt from the self guided tours of Oxford’s Noble and Great Ones.
The Divinity School is found in Tour Three.
New College is found in Tour Two
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