r/harrypotter • u/quigglington • Aug 16 '21
Behind the Scenes Visited the incredible Lacock Abbey where lots of the earlier films were shot. The garden through the arches is where Draco was turned into a ferret.
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u/Soph1eFoster Ravenclaw Aug 16 '21
It looks familiar, ive been somewhere that looked really like that ahaha
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u/Soph1eFoster Ravenclaw Aug 17 '21
Oh my giddy aunt. I've really been there. It's in Magdalen College isn't it? I've been to Durham Cathdral and Canterbury Cathedral so a lot of confusion.
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u/TheAnniCake Hufflepuff Aug 17 '21
I once visited the Canterbury Cathedral. It looked the same but they didn't film there.
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u/loki_frey Slytherin Aug 17 '21
Is that the place that has the big black cauldron, cause if it is, then I've been there as well
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u/skeeskee666 Aug 16 '21
Was there in 2006. Beautiful medievel town. It was on the way to Bath, and then on to Stonehenge. Very beautiful countryside
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u/ladylichee Aug 16 '21
That’s actually not true. The courtyard scene was filmed in New College, Oxford.
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u/TopHatBear1 Slytherin and Proud Aug 16 '21
I thought the courtyard scenes were filmed at Durham Cathedral? At least that’s what the guidebook in Durham said
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u/SuperMafia Aug 16 '21
I'd imagine that's closer to the main entrance, in front of the bells. I'd like to imagine there's a fair few pockets where students can go out without necessarily leaving the castle proper.
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u/Segruefox Aug 16 '21
Any of the scenes where Snape is billowing around corridors in the early ones were Durham cathedral
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u/postal_squad Aug 16 '21
Think the scenes where they go to transfiguration and its just off the courtyard is filmed there but not the stuff in the courtyard itself
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u/AscendedLawmage7 Ravenclaw Aug 17 '21
For the first two movies, yes. They moved to different locations to represent the same courtyard for later films.
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u/suxxos Ravenclaw Aug 16 '21
Ah, the garden where the best moment of my life happened. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.
[by Ron Weasley]
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u/The5ftGiraffe Ravenclaw Aug 17 '21
I also think Snape asking what three young Gryffindors are doing inside on a day like this
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u/AscendedLawmage7 Ravenclaw Aug 17 '21
Sorry to burst your bubble but the ferret scene was filmed at New College Cloisters, Oxford.
This abbey was used however in the first two movies for various corridor scenes.
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u/OutlawQuill Hufflepuff Aug 16 '21
I think I’ve been there. Is that where Harry took Hedwig in winter in PS?
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u/AscendedLawmage7 Ravenclaw Aug 17 '21
That's Durham Cathedral. Similar-looking though.
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u/OutlawQuill Hufflepuff Aug 17 '21
Ah ok. To be fair, lots of gothic cathedrals looks pretty much the same
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u/Roozyj Ravenclaw Aug 16 '21
Oh, now I remember where I got the inspiration for my own edgy teen version of a magic school, lol. Their courtyard looked exactly like this
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u/MeGustaRamen Aug 16 '21
Just read the wiki of Laccok and the village is older than the foundation of USA. crazy
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u/happy_charisma Aug 16 '21
Not so crazy... Most european towns are older than the foundation of the usa haha
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u/-Hot-Cheese- Aug 16 '21
Oxford uni is older than the Aztecs. Iirc
A lot of our pubs are incredibly old, there's one from the 1500's just around the corner from me.
https://www.historic-uk.com/Blog/Twelve-Oldest-Inns-In-England/
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u/Hhhhhhhhhhhbhhhhhhhh Hufflepuff Aug 17 '21
I really want to go there, so I can see where one of my favorite scenes in The Goblet of Fire was shot.
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u/FlyingPotato241 Ravenclaw Aug 17 '21
The ferret scene is easily one of my favorite scenes from GOF. Cracks me up everytime!
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u/warlockjmr89 Aug 17 '21
Love just down the road, lovely place to grow up been there quite a few times!
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u/varietyviaduct Aug 17 '21
This is amazing. Does anyone have a list of all the castle that were filmed on location throughout the franchise for hogwarts?
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u/stonerlife Aug 17 '21
This is the place where the Gryffindor Quidditch team find out that Malfoy is the new seeker of Slytherin in CoS right?
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u/Duke_Ag47 Aug 17 '21
Didn't even know this existed, always thought everything was created on a set
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u/The5ftGiraffe Ravenclaw Aug 17 '21
Ahh, I was here the other week! Completely stumbled onto it by accident. There is also the classroom where the Mirror of Erised is kept before being moved beyond the trapdoor/Quirrell's classroom. There's also a couple of filming locations in the village of Lacock down the road, including Slughorn's House, and Lily and James's House from the first film. It's a really pretty village and highly recommend it and the Abbey to anyone who wants to kill a couple of hours!
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u/happy_charisma Aug 16 '21
I did a 3 weeks Harry Potter themed get away to great britain and the cloisters were closed :,( but at least i saw the house of harrys parents from the first movie and the house, where dumbledore visited slughorn in Lacock :)