Places in Harry Potter
The Wizarding World contains numerous settings for the events in the novels, films and other media of the Harry Potter and the Fantastic Beasts series.
[3] Godric's Hollow is a fictional West Country wizarding village where Lily and James Potter lived with their infant son Harry.
In Deathly Hallows, Harry discovers that the Godric's Hollow cemetery where his parents are buried also contains the grave of Ignotus Peverell.
It is located outside the village of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon, England, near the homes of the Lovegoods, the Diggorys and the Fawcetts.
On a hill above the village is the former estate of the Riddle family, where Voldemort killed his father, his grandparents and the Muggle gardener Frank Bryce.
In Deathly Hallows, Voldemort uses Malfoy Manor as his headquarters and imprisons Luna Lovegood, Dean Thomas, Mr. Ollivander and Griphook in the basement.
Some scenes set at Malfoy Manor in the Harry Potter films were shot at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.
In Half-Blood Prince, Harry learns that he has inherited the property from his deceased godfather Sirius Black, and he donates it to the Order.
The scenes set at Shell Cottage in the film adaptations of Deathly Hallows were shot on Freshwater West beach in Wales.
[16] Christina Flotmann claimed that the contrast depicted between Beauxbatons and Hogwarts functions as an allusion to a historical competition between the "sober and proper" England and the "immoral and decadent" France.
[21] The school's headmaster is the former Death Eater Igor Karkaroff, and the novel reveals that Durmstrang students are instructed in the Dark Arts.
Durmstrang is portrayed as an all-boys school in the film adaptation of Goblet of Fire, but is depicted as co-educational in the novel.
[16] Christina Flotmann wrote that the first appearance of the Durmstrang delegation links the school with "sinister literary tropes such as the Flying Dutchman."
[24] The name of the school is likely a play on the German phrase Sturm und Drang, meaning storm and stress.
The Ilvermorny houses are Horned Serpent, Pukwudgie, Thunderbird and Wampus, each said to represent a different aspect of the ideal wizard.
[33] The Leaky Cauldron is described as a dark and shabby pub and inn, located on the Muggle street Charing Cross Road in London.
Objects that have appeared in Borgin and Burkes include a cursed opal necklace, a Hand of Glory, and a Vanishing Cabinet which is used by Draco Malfoy to infiltrate Hogwarts in Half-Blood Prince.
The Hogwarts Express train departs from the fictional platform 9¾ at King's Cross railway station in central London.
After the Harry Potter novels were published, Rowling found that she had confused the layout of King's Cross with that of Euston station.
After Alan Rickman's death in 2016, Harry Potter fans created a memorial to the actor at Platform 9¾.
[39] There is a replica of King's Cross at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter themed area at Universal Orlando Resort.
It primarily consists of a single thoroughfare called High Street, which is home to shops and pubs all served by the Hogsmeade railway station nearby.
Places in Hogsmeade La Place Cachée or The Hidden Square, as seen in the film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, is close to the River Seine and is the Parisian equivalent to Diagon Alley in London to hide the shops and businesses of the Wizarding World from Muggles.
The French Ministry of Magic, as seen in the film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, is in central Paris and is accessed via a hidden lift in the centre of a quiet square that descend through a translucent glass atrium.
Its interior design of the large halls with vast murals is heavily influenced by the Reichstag building and its offices are sparely decorated, dominated by green-tinged glass, chrome, and black bakelite.
It also acts as a long-term asylum to keep those left totally and permanently disabled by magic or suffer conditions — such as an obscurial — locked away in order to prevent any exposure the Wizarding World to Muggles.
