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English: Wall in King's Cross station, London, showing the sign "Platform 9 3/4" and a half trolley with luggage, pushed halfway through the wall. The trolley with owl and cage are additions of 2013 or 2014. Reference to Harry Potter.
King's Cross features in the Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling, as the starting point of the Hogwarts Express. The train uses a secret Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 accessed through the brick wall barrier between platforms 9 and 10. [104] In fact, platforms 9 and 10 are in a separate building from the main station and are separated by two intervening ...
After continuing around several corners, guests arrive on Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 to wait for the next train. After the Hogwarts Express has reversed into Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 and the arriving passengers have disembarked, the next passengers enter one of the twenty-one compartments in the three passenger coaches. [29] [31]
Richard Brown, who is six, told the PA news agency: ‘I feel like a wizard now I have a wand.’
After Alan Rickman's death in 2016, Harry Potter fans created a memorial to the actor at Platform 9¾. [40] A Harry Potter–themed store is also located in the station near the plaque. [41] There is a replica of King's Cross at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter themed area at Universal Orlando Resort. It features a wall between Platforms 9 ...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and produced by David Heyman from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 1997 novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling.
The Secret of Platform 13 is a children's novel by Eva Ibbotson, and illustrated by Sue Porter, first published in 1994. The book has gained extra significance as many readers find it similar to the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling , as the first book of that series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997, three years ...
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