The Hogwarts Library Box Set

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While it is a law library as the name suggests, it’s open to the public and worth a visit, if not simply to lose yourself amid the volumes and vines. She hired the architect Basil Champneys to help her build the library in a Victorian Neo-gothic style. And don’t think for a second that you will be alone here because then you will be gravely disappointed.

The interior resembles a bright and warm forest with the railing on the great spiral staircase rendered as vines and leaves while the light fixtures repeat the same motif. Dating back to the 9th century, the Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book written entirely in Latin and featuring some amazingly elaborate illustrations to go with the text. Unfortunately, he picked up a large black book near the bottom of the shelf that began screaming when he opened it. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23 ( Horcruxes) - "a banned subject at Hogwarts, you know .

There is a strong Harry Potter Ireland link, however, with several scenes from one of the movies shot off Ireland’s coast. The Suzallo Reading Room within the University's library looks exactly like a room straight out of Hogwarts.

It's unknown when, but Dumbledore eventually removed every book containing information on Horcruxes in the library. Located in the English county of Northumberland, today it is home to the Duke of Northumberland and his family and is the second largest inhabited castle in England after Windsor Castle. Okay, on second thought, that may be a slight stretch but still, I think it looks pretty similar to me. Students seem to be able to place books on hold – during the 1992–1993 school year the book Hogwarts, A History had a two-week waiting list.Although a visit to the Trinity College Library is fairly straightforward, there are a few need-to-knows that’ll make your visit that bit more enjoyable. In the GBC version of the game, the library has two floors, the lower (accessed by the second floor) being a very large room filled with labyrinthine paths between bookshelves. Here’s a complete John Rylands Library Harry Potter guide and how you can visit a real-life Hogwarts in Manchester!

Professor Severus Snape told Harry Potter that it was against the rules to carry a library book out of the castle.Traditionally, cathedral cloisters were used for studying by monks or priests so it’s rather appropriate that you’ll find some in this Neo-gothic library. Our journal bundle includes all six of our book cover journals; 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'A History of Magic', 'Hogwarts: A History', 'Dark Arts Defence Basics for Beginners', 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' and 'Advanced Potion Making - Edition II'. The Jedi archives of the Jedi Temple in the movie Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones also bear a startling resemblance to the Long Room of the Trinity College Library. Last, but certainly not least, is the actual library where Harry Potter was filmed within the University of Oxford. In addition, The Mansueto Library retrieves materials within an average time of 3 minutes through use of robotic cranes.

Whether it’s before or after your visit to the Library, it doesn’t really matter as there’s no rush on this particular activity. The most impressive room at John Rylands Library is their Historic Reading Room which looks like the inside of a cathedral.A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it it within my power to make them. Rowan Khanna distracted Madam Pince by claiming their Self-Inking Quill was left near some books so their friends could enter past closing hours. Harry Potter also showed signs of breaking the security of the library in his first year, when he entered the Restricted Section under his invisibility cloak. There are also antechambers leading off from this area, up staircases from the main room, some locked or blocked in ways that require certain spells to unseal. In the Long Room, there’s plenty of space for you to get a closer look at some of Peter Scheemakers’s gorgeous marble busts, of which some of the highlights include Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Wolfe Tone.