Various tours to this Harry Potter experience will make your day so much easier to organise, with transfers from central London. You can get to the studios in your own vehicle or hop on a bus tour from central London. We found that a family ticket offered us a much better price than individual tickets Alternatively book your own tickets below.

The link above will take you to our post about our visit, we have loads of great photos. We’ve been, it was off-the-scale-fabulous and is something that will stay with the kids and me, always. It’s not really a theme park, more a collection of sets, props and items from the Harry Potter movies.ĭo you want to walk down Diagon Alley, climb aboard the Night Bus and take a lesson in wand technique? Then you need to visit Warner Bros Studios for the Harry Potter Experience.

Although the whole country is dotted with filming locations and places of interest to Harry Potter fans, this is the big Harry Potter attraction in the UK. Vibration control, in-built (Cleansweep 11) ( OP9)Īgain, for more information about many of these brooms, please purchase the book Quidditch Through the Ages.This is “Harry Potter World” in England. Varnish, anti-jinx (Cleansweep 11) ( OP9) Swivenhodge in England ( QA2) Broomstick Accessories Quodpot, invented in the US and played in the Americas ( QA2, QWC, Pm) Even when the rider has fallen off the broom, it doesn’t fall from the sky, but rather it drifts off on its own ( PS9, PA9).įor information about specific spells used on broomsticks, see Broomstick Magic. This magic doesn’t replace the skill of the flyer, of course, but rather protects and enables them to fly with amazing speed and dexterity. “….can’t nothing interfere with a broomstick except powerful Dark magic–no kid could do that to a Nimbus Two Thousand” ( PS11). When Harry was nearly thrown from his broom during his first year, Hagrid said that a simple collision couldn’t have caused it to act that way because The best ones seem to respond to thoughts. They even seem to be at least semi-sentient. Spells Cast on Broomsīroomsticks are certainly charmed objects. These brooms are used primarily for flying lessons, which first years take with Madame Hooch ( PS9), though most of them can’t fly very well ( HBP11). Hogwarts owns a number of brooms, but they are old and don’t fly especially well Harry dreads the thought of playing a Quidditch match on one after his broom is destroyed ( PA10). This is probably smart, as the broomshed can get quite cold – Hagrid is seen outside on one cold fall morning defrosting the brooms from the shed ( PS11). Quidditch matches are routinely attended by nearly every student and teacher in the school, and star fliers have near-celebrity status among the student body.īrooms, even those owned by students, are normally stored in a broomshed by the Quidditch pitch ( PS13), although when Harry gets a Firebolt he keeps it in his dormitory out of concern for its safety ( PA15). Brooms at Hogwartsīroomsticks and broom sports hold a special place in the hearts of Hogwarts students. Information about broomsticks can be found particularly in chapters one and nine. The spell which creates this effect is called the Cushioning Charm, invented by Elliot Smethwyk in 1820 ( QA9).įor more about the history of broomsticks, please purchase the book Quidditch Through the Ages. As a matter of fact, most illustrations we see in the books show the rider floating a little ways above the handle. It also seems likely that flying a broomstick doesn’t involve actually sitting on the handle, which would be uncomfortable indeed. Without this, it seems unlikely that anyone could hang on when a Firebolt accelerates from zero to 150 mph in only ten seconds ( PA4). As time passed, they would also prove to be conducive to playing a number of sports.įlying on a broomstick, particularly one which accelerates as quickly as the Firebolt, must necessarily involve some form of magic protective field holding rider to broom and shielding against wind and inertial forces. The earliest known evidence of a broomstick enchanted to fly dates to 962 AD brooms are thought to have been chosen because they are easily transported and concealed from Muggles ( QA1). The flying broomstick is a magical item with built-in charms. About BroomsticksĪ flying broomstick is not simply a “normal” broomstick pressed into service as a mode of transportation. Brooms are a magical mode of transportation in the Wizarding World.

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