September 1st is finally here! Here’s what happened down at London’s King’s Cross station, as we celebrated the day students go #BackToHogwarts. pic.twitter.com/Gg7fhQvsr9
— Pottermore (@pottermore) September 1, 2019
LONDON — King’s Cross station in London featured as the backdrop and silent star for an unusual back-to-school celebration this weekend for throngs of Harry Potter fans.
Though not limited to school-aged children, Potter fans staged songs, dressed in costume, and even watched as electronic sign boards for trains to Edinburgh, were “diverted” through the magic-infused fictional village of Hogsmeade, last stop on the Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts Castle and school.
In the “Harry Potter” books and movies, students departed King’s Cross on a special liveried train from Platform 9 3/4 and traveled hours through the English and Scottish countryside to the fictional destination.
Ms Harding I can remember all the preaching around D&D. Some people need to have a life.
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And in Tennessee, the Reverend Daniel Reehil, a pastor at Saint Edward Catholic School in Nashville, and after consulting with several exorcists, has purged the series from the school library.
In his words,
“These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception,” he explained. “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/03/harry-potter-books-catholic-school-ban-conjuring-evil-spirits/
The above comments are generic in nature and do not form the basis for an attorney/client relationship. They do not constitute legal advice. I am not your attorney. Find your own damn hell-bound train.
I was in King’s Cross in September of 2015 and seeing hundreds of kids lined up at platform 9-3/4 and wondered what the story was about. Amazing o see the impact that the Potter story has had on people.
Isn’t that amazing?
I can’t imagine J.K. Rowling had any idea what kind of “magic” she was going to unleash when she began her “Harry Potter” series of novels.
I don’t think there’s been an English novelist with the same cultural impact since Charles Dickens.