Mary Katherine Dugan

Harry Potter Around the United Kingdom: Sites and Collections

 

            This poster aims to highlight a few of the key sites and collections around the United Kingdom related to the Harry Potter books and movies, including two locations in Edinburgh: The Elephant House, one of the sites where J.K. Rowling worked on the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Balmoral Hotel, where she completed the last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  Other key sites featured in the books and movies include Kings Cross Platform 9 ¾ and the Millennium Bridge in London and locations within the University of Oxford Bodleian Library and Christ Church College. Two of the richest collections of materials related to the Harry Potter series and author J.K. Rowling are located at Warner Brothers Studio at Leavesden and the British Library in London. AS these books are studied by scholars of children’s literature as well as popular culture, it is important to document the major sites and collections related to the creation of the books and movies.