The Hogwarts Library Box Set

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Although the Long Room in Trinity College looks like a place in Hogwarts, it wasn’t used during the filming of the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter also showed signs of breaking the security of the library in his first year, when he entered the Restricted Section under his Invisibility cloak. Think light-colored marble with red round cabochons, hunter green accents, stone-covered walls and ceiling carvings inlaid with polished marble disks. Traditionally, cathedral cloisters were used for studying by monks or priests so it’s rather appropriate that you’ll find some in this Neo-gothic library. As a result, completing homework assignments that required additional information became unnecessarily tedious.

Unfortunately, I didn’t see any Harry Potter books or any Wizarding World souvenirs for fans which is a shame. Stepping carefully over the rope that separated these books from the rest of the library, he held up his lamp to read the titles. It's unknown when Albus Dumbledore removed all the books containing information on Horcruxes from the library but it was banned by Tom's time at the school and Dumbledore was very strict about it.If you start to really inspect the place, as I did – you might notice some “plastic fantastic” amongst the wooden details. Next, you’ll approach the famous John Rylands Library staircase area and this is where you’ll feel like you’ve stepped into Hogwarts. Rowling lived and worked as an English teacher in Porto in the early 1990s while conjuring the first chapters of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Parts of this library date back to the 1600s and its age is reflected in the gorgeous wood detailing and the intricately painted ceiling that rivals the Great Hall's.

The €5 ticket can be purchased either online before your visit, or at the ticket office around the corner, and it also serves as a €5 voucher for the purchase of a book. In the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Library is divided into separate sections which are distributed throughout every floor of the castle, still containing a number of known secret passages concealed among their shelves. In the guide below, you’ll find info on everything from the loose Trinity College Library Harry Potter link to what you need to know about the tour. As if there weren’t already enough reasons to go to China, a visit to the impossibly beautiful and futuristic Tianjin Binhai Library should certainly be on your book bucket list.And then, of course, there was the sheer size of the library; tens of thousands of books; thousands of shelves; hundreds of narrow rows. Outside the library doors, the halls are bustling with students trying to be on time for their next class.

Many of these books have been a part of the collection since the Bodleian opened in 1602, back when we held only 2,500 books or so, and nothing like the 12 million items in our archives today.

Norris, Hermione Granger, together with Penelope Clearwater, was petrified by the basilisk, by looking at it in Penelope's mirror. Students seem to be able to place books on hold – during the 1992–1993 school year the book Hogwarts, A History had a two-week waiting list. For Muggles, the barrier remains quite solid, and Potter fans are advised against attempting to cross it.

If what lies within a library sparks endless inspiration, imagine if the building itself was just as extraordinary? Built between 1712 and 1732 and stretching to 65 metres in length, the Long Room in Trinity College is the longest single-chamber library in the world and houses some 200,000 books. The most impressive room at John Rylands Library is their Historic Reading Room which looks like the inside of a cathedral. I bought this amazing classic hardback copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that I’ve been after for an age! Finally, Muggles will have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl.

However by Tom Riddle's time at Hogwarts in the 1940s, Horcruxes were a banned subject and Albus Dumbledore was very strict about it. The Suzallo Reading Room within the University's library looks exactly like a room straight out of Hogwarts. Imagine huge vaulted ceilings, ornate architecture, and a staircase that looks like you’re on your way to dine in Hogwarts Great Hall!