HARRY POTTERRRRRRRRRRRR

PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET. I beseech you. Go now to Leavesden, near London. Go to the Warner Bros. Harry Potter Studio Tour.

Go, and be amazed.

Me and went over the weekend there. Such an incredible experience. For me, as a huge Potterhead, seeing all the actual movie props and incredible detail was amazing. And as an artist, seeing the behind the scenes stuff on how they made it was fascinating.

But guys. Guys. I WALKED THROUGH THE DOORS INTO THE ACTUAL GREAT HALL. I TRAILED MY HAND ACROSS THE DOORS, I WALKED ACROSS THE FLAGSTONES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF DUMBLEDORE'S EAGLE STAND, I STOOD WHERE SNAPE FOUGHT MCGONOGALL AND WHERE THE GOBLET OF FIRE STOOD.

I STOOD IN DUMBLEDORE'S OFFICE AND THE MINISTYR OF MAGIC, I KNOCKED ON THE DOOR OF NUMBER FOUR PRIVET DRIVE AND I SAT ON SIRIUS' MOTORBIKE AND IN THE WEASLEY'S FLYING CAR.

Guys, I walked down DIAGON ALLEY.

I stood in all those places where the actors I love and have grown up watching and loving stood, I saw what the saw. It's the closest I will ever get to meeting them in person or being a Hogwarts student. You cannot understand what that means to me.

At the end of the tour, there was a large dark room round the corner. You couldn't see into it from anywhere else so you had no idea what to expect. And then you walk round the corner. I swear, I watched some people come in later after I'd gotten myself back together. Whenever anyone walked round that corner, they were absolutely amazed. Speechless. Some people even came close to tears; I may have shed some myself. Because round the corner was a huge scale model of Hogwarts Castle.

Perhaps that doesn't sound too exciting. But this thing was beautiful. Absolutely extraordinary. They used it for scenes in the films, it took 40 artists to build and a team of 50 to maintain. It was absolutely, heart-achingly, bittersweetly, perfectly, jaw-droppingly beautiful.

That, to me, shows how incredible J.K.Rowling really is, how incredible those 400 cast and crew memebers are. Call the films inaccurate, call the series too hyped up, call it what you will. But if something has captured the hearts of fans so utterly, that a scale model of part of that world can knock the words right out of their mouths and the tear out of their eyes, then no matter what you think of it it is something special.

I've said this so, so many times before. Some of my friends anre probably sick to death hearing it. But I can honestly say that nothing, nothing at all on this earth affects me so deeply as the Harry Potter world. Nothing means more to me. Those books, those films, are everything, and I will always love them. Always.

I guess that's all I have to say. I fear if I speak much more I will lose what little control over my emotions I have.

So, for now;

Mischief Managed.