Amazing Parties

Harry Potter

• The basic storyline visually involves Harry leaving home from platform 9 and 3/4on King's Cross Station to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This is a spooky old castle on a high cliftop in the enchanted forest. He is assigned to Gryffindor House and eats in the communal dining hall from long benches overseen by flaming griffin torches and hanging banners. Wooden panelled and stone walls/features abound. There is a shopping street in the village nearby called Dragons Alley where amongst other things you can buy Wizards wands from Ollivanders shop. Outside the school building is a large field on which the ancient game of Quidditch is played.
• Here then is one version of this which would work as a party

• Guests arrive for reception on Platform 9 and 3/4 King's Cross Station. Or if the numbers do not exceed 120 they can actually have reception inside our 'train carriage'set. They can walk through the train carriage walls, and as if by wizardy, be transported straight into the great hall of Hogwarts. Large flaming torches illuminate the scene. Old wooden panelled walling lines one side and is punctuated by doorways marked with the names of the teachers (Prof. Plitwick, Madam Hooch, Prof Dumbledore, Prof Quirrel etc). The enchanted forest (also another possibility for reception) is to be found through the windows on the opposite wall. Overhead are the school motto banners. Everyone dines at long wooden tables. The stage set end is the masters stage complete with large blackboard, gold lettered lists of former pupils and a stone doorway through which the masters (your performers) enter.

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