5 pm on Sundays
from EmbankmentTube

"Nothing like a night-time stroll to give you ideas"

Let's put the cat amongst the pixies: Harry Potter isn't just kids' stuff. There are very real tales - and real locales - behind the stories of Harry and friends. Those tales, those locales inform this walk. Was there really an invisibility cloak? What's the truth behind the Philosophers' Stone? What place inspired Diagon Alley? Where was the legend of Dracula born? Where in a famous movie did a werewolf go on a rampage? There's good gripping London stuff behind a lot of the Harry Potter goings on - everything from characters' names to the origin of monsters. We'll solve a mystery or two: e.g., where is the entrance to The Ministry of Magic and can we get in? In short, this walk is a serious study of a subject more fantastical than fiction. And, yes, there's even some magic. As one walker put it, "dead brilliant." And if you're bringing kids along and one of 'em is a birthday boy or girl - well, please let us know in advance. Because Alan will lay on something very special for them. Goes for grown-up birthdays as well! Just ring - 020 7624 3978. Or drop us an email.

Here's some audio. The tail end of the walk, it's a soundscape that, er, speaks for itself.

The London that Inspired Harry Potter walk takes place
every* Sunday evening at 5 pm.

*Except April 26th

 

Meet Alan just outside the exit of EmbankmentTube.

EmbankmentTube is on the
Circle, District, Northern & Bakerloo Lines

Guided by Alan

 

DISCLAIMER: Alan's The London that Inspired Harry Potter walk is not an official 'Harry Potter' event and is not endorsed, sanctioned or in any other way supported, directly or indirectly by Warner Bros Entertainment Inc, the Harry Potter book publishers or J.K.Rowling and her representatives.
All rights to the series of “Harry Potter” books are the property of J.K. Rowling and her publishers including Scholastic Press, et al. Film rights and image trademarks are the property of Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.

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