Name: Harry Potter London Magic Walking Tour and Film Locations
Uploaded: 2019-03-04T09:50:20.000Z
Duration: 17 min 26 s
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and welcome to my Harry Potter guided tour of London

in which I shall visit some of the principal locations connected with Harry
Potter

and what better place to start than Kings Cross

not only because that's
where you get the Hogwarts Express from

but I've got to go and get my friend and
cameraman Simon

But first thing first.  I need to go and get my school uniform

I don't know which house to get can I go on my personality or should I go on
which one suits me better ?

That's what the sorting hat takes into account: your preferences and your personality

if you're cunning and like the colour green you can always go for a Slytherin

or if you're very brave  and adventurous then Gryffendor is for you

Oh well, looks like they put me in Slytherin

Looks they've even got a hawk here.
I think it escaped from Hogwarts

I thought you were something to do with
Harry Potter for a second

I was just watching the film
the other day and this is exactly where Hagrid and Harry Potter are walking along

He gives him his ticket for the Hogwarts Express here

Looks slightly different in the film though

Go on, off you go,  you'll be late for school mate

excuse me can you tell me where platform
9 and 3/4 is please ?

muggles like Simon can't see the entrance because it's
between platforms 9 and 10

but in the actual film
they used platforms 4 and 5

and I think this is the actual spot here but they've got bins here look

maybe I can try a little bit further along.......

in the in the Chamber of Secrets that does actually happen to Harry Potter Ron Weasley

and they end up
having to fly to Hogwarts in a magic car

from over there which is where we're
going next

a lot of the exteriors for Kings Cross
station in the films are actually St. Pancras hotel

this is the spot where their car's parked they get in and then it flies over this building

but we're flying down
to the River Thames

now this is Lambeth bridge and the
reason it's painted red is to match

Westminster Bridge over there is painted green to match the House of Commons

this is the one that's featured in the beginning of the prisoner of
azkaban

he gets picked up by the night bus and comes haring around this corner

and it has to shrink in order to get between two double-decker buses

I was watching Fast and  Furious 6 the other day

and this was supposed to be doubling up
as Moscow

that they'd had all those kind of Kremlin type domes and stuff at the end of the bridge

but I definitely recognize those two buildings over there
it was totally London

makes me feel very professional walking along this bit because this is where all the

news broadcasters and stuff stand when
they're on the TV

we're heading to Westminster Bridge over there

because in the order of the Phoenix you see them fly over Parliament on their broomsticks

I find these shadows on the ground quite
amusing

Now she's got a connection to Harry Potter up there on
her chariot that's Queen Boudicca

or Boadicea depending on what school you
went to and she was Queen of the icy

and she was Queen of the Icene who were a Celtic tribe who defeated the Romans

and according to the 1930s historian, Louis Spence

they buried her
under Kings Cross station

and where was she buried?  Under platforms 9 and 10! And that was in the 1930s !

it's a bit of a myth that she had swords on her chariots.
Everyone thinks she did because of this statue

it's a pity also about all the renovation work going on on Big Ben but

after you've been to Westminster Bridge
you can pop down here to Westminster station

because this is where, in the
order of the Phoenix, Harry comes with Arthur Weasley

to face the tribunal for
having used magic in front of muggles

poor old Arthur Weasley doesn't
understand how to use the ticket gate

He ends up walking through the ticket barrier backwards

I suppose he's a typical tourist who stands in the way  at the last minute getting out his ticket

this is Whitehall and over there behind
those black gates is where our muggle Prime Minister lives

and of course this
is where all the governmental buildings are

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 
Ministry of Transport, The Ministry of Silly Walks

and of course the Ministry of
Magic which is down here down here is

Down here is Scotland Place and Great Scotland Yard where the Metropolitan Police Headquarters used to be

in the order of
the Phoenix he comes here with Arthur Weasley

and they walk along here, don't
they like this

and there's a telephone box just over here in the corner

and they've put up a bridge there in the film, it's not there in real life

but they enter a telephone box which is just about here

I think he dials six two four
four two which dials magic if you've spell it out

and Arthur Weasely says " this should be interesting I've never used the visitors
entrance before"

and they descend down here into the ministry

and then in the Deathly Hallows Part one, that corner over there

is where Ron is keeping an eye ou in the film for Mafalda Hopkirk who he's gonna zap

and then they
drag her over to that gate over there

which in the film is actually a nice
wooden gate

but now it's just a place where builders spit and smoke cigarettes

then they emerge having drunk Polyjuice potion

and come around the corner here
to Horse Guards Avenue

they've erected a fake public toilet in the film

and they walk down into the public toilets, and then they flush themselves down the toilet, don't they?

And it's right here - and it's a perfect
place because it all looks like kind of

Someone told me that JK Rowling used to
work for Amnesty International somewhere around here

and she would have been very
familiar with these areas

and they said that her inspiration for Diagon Alley was possibly this little alleyway over here

because if you look carefully
it does run

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