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The immersive elements of "Wizards Take Flight" and "Chaos at Hogwarts" take you on a journey through the halls of the famed wizarding school and above the skies of London with the help of Dobby and Hagrid.

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A little over a month after the three-floor, 21,000-square-foot Harry Potter New York opened its storefront in New York City’s Flatiron District, it’s giving Harry Potter and wizarding world fans the chance to try two new magically immersive virtual reality experiences.

Created by WarnerMedia in a joint effort with leading VR-company Dreamscape Immersive, interactive software company Wevr and U.K. studio Keylight, “Chaos at Hogwarts” and “Wizards Take Flight” let fans explore the Wizarding World in two distinctive storylines that bring alive the popular book and film franchise in impressive new ways.

The Hollywood Reporter was given an early look at the 30-minute experiences, which debuted Thursday and encourage fans to interact with popular creatures, characters and locations from the Harry Potter universe .

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Tucked into separate nooks of the store, customized entryways for each VR experience are flanked by costumed employees who lead you through your entire adventure. Ticketholders are first taken into a decorated holding room, where they don their adjustable state-of-the-art VR gear and receive instructions on how to navigate through their upcoming journey. This is also where you’ll learn how to cast spells and select your own avatar who will sport your chosen Hogwarts house robes.

Big Harry Potter fans should keep their eyes peeled for the various Easter eggs hidden within these holding areas, where re-created props, posters, signage and more rest on shelves or in lockers, and hang along the room and hallway walls.

Once geared up, you’ll be led into the actual experience room, where the headsets will provide a 360-view of every scene (including everything beneath you) and the immersive elements will help set the experience apart from other VR.

In “Wizards Take Flight,” you’re asked to take a seat on a broom and pull out a peripheral wand that will be vital in a high-flying battle against Death Eaters. Attendees are encouraged to shout their spells while flicking their wands (with perfect technique) as they balance on their broomstick, which shifts up and down and side-to-side to help you virtually fly.

Dobby drops in briefly to assist guests before they’re given a chance to freely roam Hogwarts’ grounds, including around the Whomping Willow and Quidditch pitch.

Led by Hagrid, you’ll then zoom across London’s skies, where you’ll encounter Voldemort’s ghastly following in their signature black hoods and masks. As your avatar whips through virtual fog and thunderstorms, prepare to have your own hyperrealistic physical experience in the VR room.

Those effects, combined with the movement of the VR equipment (which will rumble in cases where you hit or swipe building tops), mean “Wizards Take Flight” may be the closest you’ll get to feeling like you’re actually broomstick-flying.

“Chaos at Hogwarts,” a standing experience, offers a different and arguably more involved immersive VR story thanks to the extra elements of walking and teamwork. Unlike “Wizards Take Flight,” guests are required to wear backpacks and foot trackers, in addition to the headsets, hand trackers and peripheral wands.

That’s because you’ll be traveling the halls of Hogwarts, from house common rooms and moving staircases to dark, watery corridors and — at one point — a rather crowded (and fiery) Great Hall. Along the way, you’ll be casting several spells, so you might want to jog your memory on those before heading in.

You’ll begin with an intensely realistic experience at Platform 9 3/4 before grabbing your wand and traversing several popular Hogwarts locales, where you’ll meet a handful of magical creatures, a few familiar ghosts and a number of chatty portraits.

As you roam the school, prepare for some incredibly lifelike situations that involve rumbling beneath your feet and even the feeling of free-falling. In an exciting and action-packed first visit to the school, young wizards and witches will go on a wild chase led by Dobby that can end multiple ways.

Both the VR adventures require separate ticketing, have height and age requirements, and are wheelchair accessible. Younger and older attendees should also be ready for action-driven stories that can feel more like 4D attractions than standard VR.

Tickets for “Chaos at Hogwarts” and “Wizards Take Flight” are on sale and can be purchased from the Harry Potter New York website for $34. The adventures, which are currently only available for the dates of July 15 to Aug. 15, require timed reservations with advanced booking highly encouraged. Tickets for Aug. 16 to Sept. 15 will be released in the coming weeks.

Guests that buy their VR experience tickets will not need to enter the Harry Potter New York virtual queue that manages in-store capacity and can proceed to the front of the line 30 minutes prior to their scheduled time.

Once you’re done with your VR adventures, you can also explore the store. Located at 935 Broadway, Harry Potter New York features 15 themed areas, including wand and personalization shops, a Butterbeer Bar, a sweetshop themed after Honeydukes and the first permanent House of MinaLima in the U.S. Inside, you can browse and purchase prints from the design studio behind the graphic props of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts  franchises.

There are also a number of interactive experiences, including a London telephone box for photo ops, a rather large re-creation of Nagini (who occasionally hisses in Parseltongue) and a store-wide scavenger hunt featuring displayed props from the films.

To visit the store without a VR experience ticket, you’ll want to enter the virtual queue and be prepared to follow the Harry Potter New York health and safety guidelines .

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Wizarding World of Harry Potter Hogsmeade Virtual Tour

Many readers have expressed how much they “wish they could visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park !”  It’s either too far, too expensive, or just not possible for one reason or another.

Fortunately, we’ve visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter enough times and taken video of almost everything at the Harry Potter park .  Now, we’re creating this page, with all our videos from the park to create a virtual Harry Potter park vacation , just for you!

While it will never take the place of the real thing, hopefully, our videos and descriptions of the park will tide you over until you can make it or maintain the memories of a recent visit until you come, again.

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Harry Potter Park Grand Opening

The grand opening celebrations for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter park went on for literally weeks!  Soft openings, VIP events, and the official grand opening day consumed the park for the better part of a month.  We were very fortunate to have attended many of the soft opening days, one of the VIP grand opening celebrations and the actual opening day.  Here’s a couple videos of these very special Harry Potter park  opening events.

Hogsmeade Village

Now that the Harry Potter park is open, we must take a general tour of the area.  Universal and JK Rowling created Hogsmeade Village and Hogwarts Castle in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.   Although technically on Diagon Alley, some places still made it to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, including Ollivanders Wand Shop and Gringotts Bank .  These are just general tours.  The detail comes below. 🙂

Three Broomsticks and Honeydukes

Three Broomsticks is one of the better themed building interiors in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Hogsmeade.  They have lots of the standard fare including rotisserie chicken, fish and chips, and turkey legs, but also include some unique dishes like shepherd’s pie, cornish pasties, and ham soup.  Of course, this is where you can get your Butterbeer and pumpkin juice, too!

Honeydukes is one of the famous attractions in Hogsmeade. It is a sweet shop famous for its chocolate and many wonderfully wild sweets. In the Harry Potter books, it also houses the entrance to a secret passageway to Hogwarts.  Other than the technicolor paint job in this building, you’ll find Chocolate Frogs , Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans , and Clippy’s Clip Joint Clippings , as well as many other Harry Potter favorites.

Moaning Myrtle

Don’t be surprised on your visit to the “public conveniences” in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park if you hear voices!

I was caught completely off-guard my first time in the restrooms in the Wizarding World when a girl’s voice started speaking to me from the ether.  Come to find out, it was none other than Moaning Myrtle from the Harry Potter books and movies!  She’s graced the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Hogsmeade with her presence, but only in the main bathrooms — both the boys and the girls.

We shot a short video to give you some idea of what it’s like.  Please note: we only filmed the floor, so no dirty stuff (get your minds out of the gutter!) and because they’re fully tiled bathrooms, the sound is a bit rough.  We did the best we could to single out Myrtle’s voice, but it’s still a bit difficult to hear her clearly.

Dervish & Banges and Owl Post

Dervish & Banges is of course where Hogwarts students pick up their school supplies and other sundry things.  Wands, Rememberalls, Sneakoscopes, your class robes, broomsticks, t-shirts, ball caps, and more can be found in Dervish & Banges or the Owl Post.

Although officially two separate shops, at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter the shops can be found in essentially the same location and you can meander through both while indoors.  Recently enlarged, you’ll find that these shops are often very crowded and most of the items can be purchased in other areas of the Wizarding World and even in other parts of the Islands of Adventure theme park.

Ollivanders Wand Shop

Easily one of my favorite parts of the park and usually the longest line, also.  Many guests have complained that the show is too short for such a long wait.  You can watch the video and decide for yourself.  For me, it’s so much more than just the show.  It’s the theming of the building, the special effects, the “feel” of the whole show!  The video shows the entire show, however, be aware that I had to add some music over the top and it conceals the show audio a bit.  This was necessary due to Universal copyright rules.

Flight of the Hippogriff

Want to have the most spectacular view of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park?  Ride the Flight of the Hippogriff!  Right at the top of the first climb, you get an amazing view of the whole park!  You’ll see it briefly in the video.

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey Ride

Easily the most popular attraction at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  Harry Potter ride sends guests on a virtual broomstick ride with Harry, Hermione, and Ron throughout the grounds of Hogwarts and even onto the Quidditch field.  You’ll see dragons, Hagrid, death eaters, and some of those nasty Slytherin characters, too.

The lighting on the ride is quite dim, so taking a decent video is nearly impossible.  However, I have taken video of the queue line, as it winds it’s way through Hogwarts.  For me, the line is almost as much fun as the ride with Dumbledore’s office, the sorting hat, and much more.

If you want a slight hint at what the Harry Potter ride is like, the original Super Bowl commercial gave away more of the ride’s content than I knew, at the time.  Check it out for a glimpse at the ride.

So, that’s your virtual tour of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Hogsmeade.   What did you think?  Ready to visit it for real?

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Experience Review: Harry Potter New York Virtual Reality

The closest you’ll get to experiencing real magic!

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Who among us hasn’t secretly (or not-so-secretly) wished they could go flying on a broomstick or wander the halls of Hogwarts , wearing their house colors and brandishing a magic wand to “reparo” away any trouble that comes their way?

Well, let me tell you, the virtual reality (VR) experiences at Harry Potter New York are the closest you’ll ever get to experiencing real magic.

This flagship store, located in the Flatiron District in New York City, opened last month as a decked-out shopping space where Wizarding World fans can unload their galleons and take plenty of Instagram photos (we rounded up our favorite finds from the store here , in case you missed it). But last week, the location took the “experience” part of “experiential shopping experience” up a notch by opening “Wizards Take Flight” and “Chaos At Hogwarts,” two immersive VR experiences that I was lucky enough to preview. The two are wildly different in many ways, but both offer amusement-park-level quality and will make even the most casual Harry Potter fan feel like an excited kid who has just cracked open The Sorcerer’s Stone for the first time.

I won’t give away too many details about either experience, because I believe that the surprises within each are a big part of what makes them so magical. However, I will give a bit of an overview of the major differences and strengths of each experience.

Both of the VR experiences start in a themed waiting area, where participants get basic instructions on how to use the required equipment. (Those instructions come from very in-character guides who, in my opinion, really elevate the fan experience). For “Wizards Take Flight,” the staging area is a Quidditch locker room, where participants can stash their belongings in lockers alongside those belonging to characters such as Cedric Diggory and the Weasley twins. Then, for both experiences, you will be asked to give your Hogwarts house and choose from one of four avatar options. The avatars offer a range of skin tones but appear intentionally gender neutral, presumably to keep the process simple and inclusive.

“Wizards Take Flight” is, in simple terms, a flying simulator. The VR equipment is minimal — hand sensors and a headset — because you physically sit on a broomstick upon entering the main room. Once you’re set up on your broom and your headset is on properly, you’ll discover why you selected avatars: You can see your fellow fliers around you, as well as your own hands in front of you! Once the simulation kicks off, participants have some free flying time to explore the grounds of Hogwarts. You truly control the direction of your broom by pulling it up, pushing down, leaning left or right, etc. Honestly, I would have been content flying around the grounds of Hogwarts forever, but soon you are called to help Hagrid with a treacherous flight through London. In the main task/plot of the simulation, you are performing double duty — Not only controlling your broomstick as you dip and dive over the Thames, but also casting spells with a wand that is conveniently placed below your broom (yes, it is a physical wand that you hold). Throughout, the experience feels incredibly  real, especially because there are 4D effects, such as wind and rain, that truly elevate the simulation. Overall, this is certainly the more kid-friendly experience of the two. Managing the equipment is fairly simple and, even though some nefarious characters do show up in London, it is possible to just ignore them and focus on the flying experience. Not to cross my fandoms here, but I would definitely liken “Wizards Take Flight” to riding “Avatar Flight of Passage” in Disney World .

The second experience, “Chaos At Hogwarts,” begins at Kings Cross Station. In this experience, participants physically walk through the halls of Hogwarts, using their wands to cast spells and interact with various elements of the Wizarding World to help a certain house-elf who has a fondness for socks. To provide another frame of reference for those who have dabbled in VR, this experience is very similar to the The Void VR experiences, which previously immersed fans in the worlds of Ghostbusters, Star Wars, and The Avengers. Before heading in for this VR experience, players have to get more suited up than they do for “Wizards Take Flight.” The gear for “Choas At Hogwarts” includes hand sensors, foot sensors, a backpack, and an attached headset. The gear is more intense because the experience itself is a bit more intense! It is hard to describe if you have never been to one of these VR experiences, but you are physically walking around a space that — thanks to your fabulous VR headset — appears to be the iconic school of witchcraft and wizardry. Again, thanks to 4D effects, you really feel like you are moving on the grand staircase, walking across precarious stepping stones, or facing off against a host of magical creatures. You also use your wand to cast a variety of spells, but this time it has a stronger impact on the outcome. Unlike “Wizards Take Flight,” “Chaos At Hogwarts” has multiple possible endings, depending on how well (or how quickly) you and your VR companions perform spells. Of the two experiences, this one is far more immersive and action-packed. However, its very physical nature and the sudden appearance of some large magical creatures may make this experience a bit overwhelming for some fans.

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Overall, I highly recommend both of the experiences. Because this is, of course, technology-based, there were rare moments when I was keenly aware that I was in a simulation (like when my wand glitched and showed up a few feet away in the air, despite being in my hand, or when I had to readjust my headset for a better view while blasting Pixies). However, the overall experience was incredibly fun, and something I certainly recommend to any Harry Potter fans who find themselves in New York City. The amount of detail in both experiences is stunning. Seriously, you could probably do each of these VR experiences a dozen times and still find new things to see. Even the sleeves of your wizarding robes flap in the wind as you move around!

Tickets for both experiences are available to prebook online, which the store recommends. Tickets are sold out right now through mid-August, but tickets for Aug. 16- Sept. 15 are expected to drop soon, followed by tickets for later dates. It costs $35 per person for either VR experience, which I would say is a reasonable price for the quality.

Head to harrypotterstore.com/tickets to learn more about the experiences and book tickets now!

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Madeleine Buckley was a Senior Editor at The Pop Insider, The Toy Insider, and The Toy Book. She covered all things toys and fandom, and has appeared on Cheddar and a variety of regional news networks to talk about the latest trends in both. She is a movie score enthusiast, mediocre knitter, proud Syracuse alumna, and Marvel lover. You can usually find her at the movies or hanging out at home with her super-pup, Parker.

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Explore the Hogwarts Grounds With This Magical New Harry Potter Interactive

I f you’ve ever daydreamed about what it would be like to wander around the Hogwarts grounds, you’re in luck: on Friday, Pottermore is debuting a digital tour experience of the campus.

J.K. Rowling’ s digital entertainment company explained in a statement, “Users visiting Pottermore will have the opportunity to explore the famous wizarding school and its grounds, including the Quidditch pitch where Harry mastered the Golden Snitch and the Forbidden Forest, complete with Hagrid’s hut.The castle and its grounds are peppered with ‘hot spots’ — clickable points that expand to provide details about the magic and mystery of the famous wizarding school that Harry Potter attended.”

Visitors will access a first-person “fly-through” experience of three areas: the exterior of the castle, the Forbidden Forest and the Quidditch pitch. (Sadly, the castle interiors aren’t part of the deal. You’ll have to leave those to your daydreams.)

“We’ve seen many interpretations of Hogwarts — from the artwork in the illustrated editions of the books to the eight feature films from Warner Bros.,” said Pottermore’s global digital director Henri Stuart-Reckling. “This new feature on our website marks the first time fans will have the opportunity to explore the famous wizarding school any time, any place and at their own pace. It’s a unique, mobile-first experience using bespoke visual assets allowing anyone to ‘visit’ Hogwarts on-the-go.”

The timing is fitting: the tour launches on Sept. 1, back-to-school day at Hogwarts. Check out a video preview above, and find the full experience on Pottermore .

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Explore Hogwarts in Magical New Harry Potter Interactive Tour

Make sure you don't interrupt class as you explore Hogwarts like never before in a cool new Harry Potter interactive experience.

Harry Potter fans can now take a virtual tour of Hogwarts in a new digital simulation presented by Pottermore . Pottermore announced its first-ever Hogwarts Digital Experience, which allows users to visit the famed school and its grounds. Launch of the Hogwarts Experience coincides with the start of the Hogwarts school year, which is September 1st and coincidentally happens at the same time most Americans go back to school as well. Too bad fans can't really enroll in the school to get a degree in wizarding, but that can't be too far off in the future.

A press release from Pottermore announced the news today and the experience is truly a one-of-a-kind Harry Potter experience. Pottermore released a statement detailing the event. It reads.

"One of the most beloved and iconic settings from J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World , the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, can now be visited for free in an immersive digital experience beginning today on pottermore.com."

Visitors will access a first-person "fly-through" experience of three areas: the exterior of the castle, the Forbidden Forest and the Quidditch pitch, but users will not have access to the inside of the school because class is obviously in session now. Can't go around having thousands of people interrupting the school day.

The castle and its grounds are peppered with 'hotspots' or Easter Eggs, which are clickable points that expand to provide details about the magic and mystery of the famous wizarding school that Harry Potter and the gang attended. The statement continues.

"We've seen many interpretations of Hogwarts - from the artwork in the illustrated editions of the books to the eight feature films from Warner Bros.," says Henriette Stuart-Reckling, Global Digital Director, Pottermore. "This new feature on our website marks the first time fans will have the opportunity to explore the famous wizarding school any time, any place and at their own pace. It's a unique, mobile-first experience using bespoke visual assets allowing anyone to "visit" Hogwarts on-the-go."

Though it's a really neat experience, fans will more than likely bemoan the fact that yu can't actually go into Hogwarts. But the experience is free and it is actually really neat, even if you're not a huge Harry Potter fan .

Fans are able to access the site and take the virtual tour of Hogwarts through standard computers, but also smart phones and tablets as well and the experience is great on all three options. The only catch is that you have to be a registered user of the Pottermore site, which is completely free and an incredible resource for everything officially Potter . The tech team behind the experience did an excellent job of creating an experience that will take fans hours to get all of the way through.

Pottermore, the digital publishing, e-commerce, entertainment and news company from J.K. Rowling, is the global digital publisher of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. As the digital heart of J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, Pottermore is dedicated to unlocking the power of imagination. It offers news, features, and articles as well as new and previously unreleased writing by J.K. Rowling.

‘Harry Potter’ Fans Can Tour Hogwarts in New Digital Experience

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Harry Potter fans may not be able to physically go to Hogwarts next week, J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website launched the second best thing. A new  interactive digital platform  called Hogwarts Experience allows fans to roam the grounds as if they were in the books. 

The website, which launched to coincide with the first official day of school at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, includes the Forbidden Forest (including Hagrid’s hut), the Quidditch pitch and the exterior of the castle itself. 

“From Professor Sprout’s greenhouses to Hagrid’s hut, the experience features many iconic details from the beloved wizarding school, which you can learn about and investigate at your own pace,” a note on the site reads. “(Sadly, no grumbling Argus Filch is included in this experience. Maybe he’s popped out for his Kwikspell course.)”

The Hogwarts Experience is free to all registered users of Pottermore, and is available across most devices, including smartphones, tablets and PCs.

Introducing the Hogwarts Experience from Pottermore. Go #BackToHogwarts this September first: https://t.co/rqqIDt4jGZ pic.twitter.com/lBa46FPCN1 — Pottermore (@pottermore) September 1, 2017

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Lastly, the website adds, September 1st, 2017, marks the “exact date of the ‘Nineteen Years Later’ Deathly Hallows epilogue in which readers saw a grown-up Harry, Ron and Hermione seeing off their children as the kids boarded the Hogwarts Express.” Proving that, like grown-up Harry, fans of the franchise can – in a way – go back to Hogwarts.

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Tour the real-life locations of Harry Potter's world with Google Earth

Platform 9 3/4 really exists! (Kind of)

Attention Potterheads: Diagon Alley is real! Well, sort of. The busy London street that's packed with wizards—and invisible to muggles—is based on a real-life Leadenhall Market, a shop-filled covered passageway that dates to the 1400's.

You can go to Diagon Alley (er, Leadnehall Market) and visit a dozen real-world Harry Potter locations thanks to this amazing virtual tour from Google Earth . From Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station to the castle that was transformed into Hogwarts for the movies, this gorgeous virtual tour makes Harry Potter's world come to life.

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This is a golden age of online Harry Potter activities: JK Rowling has unveiled a magical new online Harry Potter experience on Wizarding World—and it’s free; you can tour the “ Harry Potter: A History of Magic ” exhibit from the British Library at home; and an enterprising librarian made this Harry Potter-themed digital escape room that lets you wander through Hogwarts. That's a lot of magic to access with a couple of clicks of a trackpad.

You can also take advantage of this time in, and return to the source material for all this Harry Potter-tinted fun. This is a great time to stream the Harry Potter movies, which are among the 50 best  family movies to watch together.  And you can reread the original books: The NYPL's e-reader lets you download Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and hundreds of thousands of other books for free .

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Harry Potter fans can now take an interactive digital tour of Hogwarts

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Harry Potter fans might not be able to head to Hogwarts this September, but they can get close with Pottermore’s newest feature.

The J.K. Rowling -owned Harry Potter fan site recently launched an interactive tour site that allows fans to take a digital tour of the famous wizarding school.

Introducing the Hogwarts Experience from Pottermore. Go #BackToHogwarts this September first: https://t.co/rqqIDt4jGZ pic.twitter.com/lBa46FPCN1 — Wizarding World (@wizardingworld) September 1, 2017

Pottermore told TIME in a statement that the game includes clickable hot spots that let users collect points throughout the tour.

“Users visiting Pottermore will have the opportunity to explore the famous wizarding school and its grounds, including the Quidditch pitch where Harry mastered the Golden Snitch and the Forbidden Forest, complete with Hagrid’s hut. The castle and its grounds are peppered with ‘hot spots’ — clickable points that expand to provide details about the magic and mystery of the famous wizarding school that Harry Potter attended,” said Pottermore in the statement.

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The website was launched on Sept. 1, to correspond with the first official day of school at Hogwarts, Rolling Stone reports. In addition to letting fans roam around the castle grounds, the website includes the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid’s hut, the Quidditch pitch and the campus exterior.

“From Professor Sprout’s greenhouses to Hagrid’s hut, the experience features many iconic details from the beloved wizarding school, which you can learn about and investigate at your own pace,” a message on the website reads. “(Sadly, no grumbling Argus Filch is included in this experience. Maybe he’s popped out for his Kwikspell course.)”

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This experience is free to all registered users of Pottermore and is available across most devices.

Finally, Rolling Stone reports that the website specifies that Sept. 1, 2017, marks the exact date of the “Nineteen Years Later” epilogue in Deathly Hallows that depicts Harry, Ron and Hermione seeing their children off to the Hogwarts express.

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Saw that in my sub box – dare I ask what sorts of frustration you ran into with the Astronomy tower?

Oh, I was having issues with the written dimensions not matching up with what I was seeing visually. Turns out I had the blueprints’ sizing within the model a little wrong. All fixed now!

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Can’t wait to see it – and the tour was really good too.

Back in 2012 I had a similar obsession so I studied the movies, models, maps, and modeled the Half-Blood Prince castle in Maya. Different from you my renders weren’t nearly as beautiful, complete, and ultimately I abandoned the project. It gives me so much joy to see your progress and compare different castle versions with all the details! Looking forward to more landscape (Hagrids, Quidditch pitch, and gates?), HBP and DH versions. Thank you for taking us with you on your journey!

An awesome video as usual! I was wondering (because I went back and watched the Philosopher’s Stone Hogwarts tour that you did) if you had any bird’s-eye-view pictures of where the quidditch pitch sits in relation to the training grounds/ruins (and the rest of Hogwarts in general). I’m curious how far away it sits and at roughly what angle. Anyway, keep up the awesome work, I can’t wait to see your astronomy tower!

Here’s a plan view of that COS photogrammetry you saw in that video:

(I’ve roughly completed the perimeter of the pitch with the red dashed line; the ends aren’t in the photogrammetry because they aren’t seen well enough in that shot.)

Awesome, thanks 🙂

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