How to Take a Harry Potter Tour of Europe

Visit Picket Close, Bracknell: This is where the famous Privet Drive scene with Dumbledore, in all his wisdom (haha!), Go to the London Zoo Reptile House, Regent's Park: The snake can hear you, Harry!, Visit Leadenhall Market (storefront) at 42...

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Step 1: Visit Picket Close

chose to leave baby Harry on the Dursleys' doorstep.

Step 2: Bracknell: This is where the famous Privet Drive scene with Dumbledore

This is where the epic scene when Harry firsts uses Parseltongue, but he doesn't know it yet, was shot. ,, The glass roof shot is also from this station and is really a pedestrian sky bridge. ,, They used to do boat tours along the Thames River Harry and Co. fly over, which would give a similar view. ,,,,, To schedule your own tour or for more information, go to https://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/about-us , Tourists can ride this Jacobite Steam Train. , Unfortunately you won’t see Hogwarts in the distance as in the films – it was created using special effects.

Step 3: in all his wisdom (haha!)

Step 4: Go to the London Zoo Reptile House

Step 5: Regent's Park: The snake can hear you

Step 6: Harry!

Step 7: Visit Leadenhall Market (storefront) at 42 Bull’s Head Passage: This is the scene of Harry and Hagrid entering the Leaky Cauldron.

Step 8: Stop by St. Pancras International Station: This station was used to shoot the exterior shots of King's Cross Station used in Chamber of Secrets.

Step 9: Visit Borough Street Market: This is where the exterior shots of the Leaky Cauldron were filmed for Prisoner of Azkaban as Harry enters from the Knight Bus.

Step 10: Go to the Tower Bridge

Step 11: London Eye

Step 12: Big Ben

Step 13: and Buckingham Palace: These 4 important places Harry views from the skies in Order of the Phoenix when he is rescued from the Dursleys'.

Step 14: Walk across the Millennium Bridge: This is from the scene in Half-Blood Prince when black smoke flying Death Eaters attack the bridge and it falls into the river.

Step 15: Visit the Government Offices of Whitehall: For Order of the Phoenix and the Deathly Hallows- Part 1

Step 16: these real offices serve as exteriors for the Ministry of Magic.

Step 17: Go to Piccadilly Circus

Step 18: West End: In Deathly Hallows- Part 1

Step 19: Harry

Step 20: and Hermione fight off disguised Death Eaters in a Muggle café which was filmed here.

Step 21: Visit Leicester Square: Not a film location

Step 22: but where Daniel Radcliffe and other stars have strolled past paparazzi and down red carpets to the Odeon Theater to attend the movies’ premieres.

Step 23: Visit Leavesden Film Studios (20 miles north of London): Other London scenes

Step 24: like Diagon Alley

Step 25: only exist here

Step 26: where most of the films’ interiors were shot.

Step 27: Visit Fort William and Mallaig Train Line: The Hogwarts Express train that carries Harry

Step 28: and Hermione to school each year was filmed along an actual steam-train line that runs between the two.

Step 29: Go north to Goathland

Step 30: North Yorkshire: Was used as the film set for Hogsmeade.

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