It’s in the richly-vaulted Divinity School of Oxford University’s famous Bodleian Library (which was ‘Hogwarts infirmary’ in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) that Professor McGonagall ( Maggie Smith) teaches a deeply embarrassed Ron to waltz ready for the Yule Ball. The corridors where everyone seems to be sporting ‘Potter stinks’ badges, and the quad in which Mad-Eye Moody turns Malfoy into a ferret, are the cloisters of New College, Holywell Street. Hogwarts this time, when it’s not constructed in the studio, is in Oxford. The forest provided the spooky backdrop for many a Hammer horror film. The wood in which Hagrid shows harry the dragons in their crates before the first challenge, is Black Park, a popular location alongside Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
The cascade, by the way, is the little waterfall used for the Princes' duet in Rob Marshall's 2014 film of the Stephen Sondheim musical Into The Woods.
Lakeside scenes, with Hermione having to convey messages between Harry and Ron, and where, later, Mad-Eye Moody ( Brendan Gleeson) confronts Barty Crouch Sr, are filmed between the Cascade and the Roman ruins on the shore of Virginia Water in Surrey. Not many of the previous locations are used though, once again, Hogwarts Express chuffs over the Glenfinnan Viaduct in Scotland en route to the wizard school. The Glastonbury-like campground, though, was filmed back at the studio in Leavesden. They’re immediately whisked away to the coast, overlooking the spectacular white cliffs known as Seven Sisters, between Seaford and Eastbourne in East Sussex. It’s Beacon Hill in the Ivinghoe Hills near Berkhamsted. The woods through which Harry and the Weasleys tramp as they set out for the Quidditch World Cup, and where they meet Cedric Diggory ( Robert Pattinson) and his father, is Ashridge Woods, on the Ashridge Estate between Hemel Hempstead and Aylesbury in Hertfordshire.Īlso on the estate, owned by the National Trust, is the hill on which the ‘manky old boot’, which is actually the Portkey, is found. The fourth in the Harry Potter franchise takes an even darker turn, though die-hard fans were unhappy with the way much of the book’s plot and complexity were jettisoned. Harry Potter location: Ron Weasley learns to waltz: Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Oxford
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