A selection of photos I took during a September 2017 visit to the Making Of Harry Potter tour at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, where a large portion of the film series was made. It is an incredible traipse through the actual props and sets used in creating the movies, self-guided and self-paced (after an initial controlled entry). I went by myself, so I spent a lot of time looking for interesting details of the sort easily overlooked if one is keeping an eye on their kids in a crowded public space. I was limited to going handheld, using the ambient light, but I had the time and patience to square up a number of shots I was very happy with, some of which I'm putting here.
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Table settings in the Great Hall
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Costuming for Mad-Eye Moody
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Prop hatful of chocolate bunnies
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Ministry of Magic proclamations
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I didn't love the concept of Skele-Grow, but I do like the design of the bottle
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Bottles of ingredients in the potions classroom
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Costuming detail for Dolores Umbridge
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It was surprising to see a set recreation of the death of Charity Burbage, one of the bleakest sequences in all the films
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Details of the machinations of a complicated door lock
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The shrunken head from the Knight Bus
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Detail of Luna Lovegood's luggage
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Bathilda Bagshot, moments before her skin is shed
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Signs in Diagon Alley
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Fetal Voldemort, though I'm not sure if it's from his resurrection, or the King's Cross station scene