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...Harry Potter movies are filmed primarily at a former airplane factory 20 miles outside London. Inside Leavesden Studios, as it's called, is a dreamlike mishmash of Harry Potter's past: bits and pieces of the Whomping Willow, signs from the stores in Diagon Alley, the smashed-up remains of giant chess pieces from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Honestly, is this any place to raise a child...
...begin with the eternal, eternally entertaining compulsory figures. It's summertime, and Harry makes his way from the Dursleys' to the Weasleys' to Diagon Alley to Hogwarts (we're spared the Sorting Hat's customary verbosities this year). Snape has at long last secured the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching job. Draco has his usual generic mischief cooking. Harry, now 16, has been made captain of Gryffindor's Quidditch team, and he has stumbled on a mysterious potions textbook that was formerly the property of--wait for it--a certain Half-Blood Prince. Meanwhile, Dumbledore and Harry, with...
Fortescue’s desserts have heretofore appeared only in Diagon Alley, a London locale that offers more enticing—if fictional—retail alternatives to the Square’s pedestrian Gap and CVS. It will finally be conjured into real-world cones, though, thanks to Toscanini’s (where else?)—part of a Square-wide effort to help bring Hogwarts to Harvard...
...garment is standard Diagon Alley fare, worn by students of all four Houses. But Gong says she has recently been “leaning toward Ravenclaw”—that academic workhorse of Professor Filius Flitwick—although the slimy greens of her Muggle House, Leverett, have more in common with Slytherin...
Younger readers sense that she knows their world and their tastes. Kids care about brands: a Nimbus 2000 broom is the best on the market, at least until the Nimbus 2001 is released. They like to solve her puzzles: they are tickled to see that Diagon Alley, the wizard mall, is of course laid out diagonally. They like a character who moves from being powerless to being magical to having powers even over other adults. Harry's being an orphan makes him both more vulnerable and independent in ways most 13-year-olds are not; he had to invent himself...