The Harry Potter Locations In London- Platform 9 3/4 & Leaky Cauldron / Extensive Night Walking Tour
Harry Potter Locations In London
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today's adventure begins looking at this
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sculpture of Harry Potter it's going to
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be a very Harry Potter filled day I'm
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going to go to some of the filming
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locations here in London England I'm
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doing a walking tour you're wizard Harry
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starting off here going to take the
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underground the public transit tubes if
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you
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will and head up to King C King's cross
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station I believe it's called
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ask one of the staff here said that the
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Picadilly line takes me right to King
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cross I also learned to stand on the
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right on the escalator cuz everyone
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walks on the left looks like it's only a
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few stops also so I'm starting off here
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at padil Circus I have to go to King's
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cross and as a recording of this Friday
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TGIF January 24th
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2025 going be a good day I'm
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excited love taking the tubes here is so
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dang convenient so dang convenient I'm
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already at King cross just like that
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okay I made it into King's cross what a
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beautiful
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building and the platform 9 and
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3/4 this is the freaking line to get a
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picture with the cart going through the
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wall oh my Lord how much of this is
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going to be shown on the tour but
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goodness gracious I doubt my tour
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group's going to be waiting in this line
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welcome welcome everyone Adam the woo
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here wearing an appropriate miniature
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Ravenclaw scarf the house I belong to
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when I was first sorted by the Sorting
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Hat years ago that is what the Sorting
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Hat put me in and after watching the
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films numerous times I feel like out of
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all the houses that is the one that most
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applies to me granted after recently
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rewatching the films again before I left
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all eight movies I didn't watch anything
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past the first eight any of the
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prequels and all that seven films eight
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movies Deathly Hallows is two parts I
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feel like I could be applied to any of
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the houses just like the characters in
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the movies I think some of them could
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have been in different houses but I
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chose to be in certain ones a Sorting
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Hat put them in certain
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ones I am team
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Ravenclaw and I figured I would probably
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sport this today also the Platform 9 and
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3/4 I believe the photo op is not the
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actual spot hoping we can see the real
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spot from the
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movie watch them all again as stated
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love those movies have been to Wizarding
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World in California have been to
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Wizarding World and Diagon Alley in
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Florida years ago but I'm going to see
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the real locations the London
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locations join me shall you so I must
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add this is going to be part of a
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walking tour so I don't know how much
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ground we're going to cover but it's
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supposed to be the most extensive
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walking tour that I could
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find but there are other locations that
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are a ways from London that I'm not
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going to be doing today so I'm kind of
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in the hands of the
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guide but I think it's going to be good
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it's going to be good all right I got a
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few minutes before the tour starts I'm
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going to grab a cup of coffee and then
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meet up with the guide and the others in
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the group but I'm going to go inside the
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platform 934 Harry Potter shop right
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here at King's cross and just kind of do
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a little bit of looking around now out
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of the eight films
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I have a few that are my favorites I
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think the first one is just so innocent
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and pure and just really good and one
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thing about the movies they get darker
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as it goes on but the first one is
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really Untouchable as far as just Good
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Vibes and makes you makes you get those
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good feelings inside and all that but I
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think probably my favorite my favorites
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have to be a tossup between prisoner of
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aaban Order of the Phoenix at Half Blood
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Prince I think those those three
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depending on each time I watch them kind
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of are the ones I lean to probably being
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my favorite Dy Hallows are good the the
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last two but I don't know if I'd put
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those I mean they're very very dramatic
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but I think I think of the three and
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probably half blood prints I think the
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last time watching through them I think
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I think that movie I think right now
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person each time it fluctuates each time
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I watch them but I think right now that
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that's probably probably my favorite one
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order of the Phoenix is is great too as
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well but really part one is always one
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you can just put on and and really just
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get a good feeling after after washing
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it also Dumbledore in the first two I
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think my favorite Dumbledore is the
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first is in the first two films he
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passed away and then another actor came
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in and did all the other ones he's great
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too but the the first Dumbledore yeah he
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he
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was he was
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great I don't know if I'm going to get
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in that line or
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not but I did purchase this
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little Platform 9 and 3/4 king king's
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cross London magnet that I can
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put I can put on my little metal
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cabinets on my garage I'm getting a lot
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of stuff from my England trip this is a
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this is awesome one thing that's really
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awesome about those films as well is all
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eight of them are great like there's not
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one dud in the whole group it's tough to
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say that about a lot of franchises
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really looking forward to seeing these
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spots really looking forward to it there
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it is Black Sheep coffee oh it's a
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rollerblader just went oh actually a
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roller skater all right piping hot
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caffeinated beverage
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achieved from the spot the black sheep
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coffee all right get caffeinated I just
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met my guide waiting on a couple more
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people to show up he said there's a
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total of only five people he said he
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likes to go with small groups not sure
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if everyone's going to show up but the
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absolute most that's going to be on this
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tour is five people
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all right first spot in shamber of
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Secrets this was used as the station
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this is when the car when Ron
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rescues Harry's flying by with the car
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he's actually showing some clips too and
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the car fly might have bit around the
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other side you see this clock tower very
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prominently this is the corner of King's
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cross and St
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panas right there so just picture the
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car flying by all right our guide's name
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is Reuben and he's got a little video
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clipboard with him too to show the the
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scenes which is kind of a nice touch so
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where the 9 and 3/4 scene was was right
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over there we're not able to go in
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there's another entrance that he was
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able to peek through the window but
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because there's a bad storm north of
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here cannot enter without and the rest
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of my group doesn't have a ticket to go
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in but right over there between the four
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and five platform was where the 9 and
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3/4s was and because they have certain
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areas blocked off for the because of
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some storms that are and the trains are
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going to can't go in that particular
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section so moving on while the rest of
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the group is in the store that was the
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other spot my guide said oh if you want
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to run over scan in like you're going to
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take the train and get a view of where
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the real 9 and 3/4 was that between four
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and 5 and then come back and meet the
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group cuz say about 20 minutes while the
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rest of the group's in there shopping
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I've already done my shopping scanned in
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as if I was going to take the train and
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then I'll scan out like I took the
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train yeah you can this is also a scene
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where Hagrid's walking through here here
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talking about the 9 and 3/4 to
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Harry so there's platform
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four so he said it was between four and
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5 oh yeah I'm not for certain but I
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think it was right in here a little
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farther
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down I don't have anything to match up
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because I'm kind of doing this on the
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Fly real quick but I believe this is
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where Harry see the dream sequence when
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he sees he who should not be named down
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here looking at the clips Harry was like
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right here of course it was Daylight
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outside
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but it was like right in this area right
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here give or take a few feet at least
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the best that I can tell kind of in a
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rush this but this is the general area
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which is pretty dang awesome all right
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I'm going to scan out and meet up with
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the group again not the real spot of the
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location but I kind of saw the general
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area the guide was saying sometimes this
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line get to be 5 hours long in the
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summer it's 3 hours
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now think in the underground now to
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other spots
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all right out of the underground up on
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the upper level going over to the market
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from sorcerer
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1881
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this is the angle when Harry and hacker
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were
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walking
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right yeah Harry and Haggard walking
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right
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corner I see the door
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so you have here
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didn't and then they are going to the C
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Dr that is going to be right there I
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think
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they because they decided to close it if
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it was a p and right now as you can see
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a coffe coffee but most of the days is
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GR so my question is I don't know how
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they pay the rent is Magic because most
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of the time it's closed so I don't know
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what is happening but I
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think there was a painted black it was a
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black door then it's a coffee place now
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but it's not
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open I mean it's it's always the same
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one so apolog go to it's like they may
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open one
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day so you have there or
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hagri and Harry walking
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up man that's freaking
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cool
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see this
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yeah there a skeleton a
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hay yeah that's pretty
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awesome that's the
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door he
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rep like oh this is inspiration for Dion
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right the thing is happening is
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everybody saying this is inspiration
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like as you can see here the inspiration
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of diagonal so Yi rolling is saying like
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no no no I'm going to show you later one
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of the inspiration but as you can see
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Harry Potter right now is very famous so
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everybody wants like money they are
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saying know this is inspiration for this
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one this isir and it's like well need
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the bases you know name that is that is
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so freaking
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cool that is so
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cool that's the spot
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Bridge right here is where the original
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London Bridge was
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pictures pictures pictures and then you
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have their Tower
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Bridge a tower bridge I walked across
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that last night scene I believe he was
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saying order the
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Phoenix that ship can be seeing when
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they're flying by and order the Phoenix
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on their brooms also also behind it was
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the council building at the beginning of
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half fli
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fronts the hold the start of it when the
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title screen appears it's like behind
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the ship
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there it right underneath there and now
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I'm going to show you our M London
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Bridge not the original London Bridge
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but a London Bridge it's the current
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London
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Bridge if you can see this is the
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medieval it was right here we have
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houses because it was the taxes if you
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wanted to go to London you have to pay
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the taxes similarly all right heading
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over to another market area now
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underneath this
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bridge so we came to Market they should
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Harter but it was hard to find what I
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did is I
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watch the places will
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I and then I found this one is there all
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this
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Market it was a place for the L right
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now it's very famous for the like was
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alluding to the fact to look at the
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steeple of that old building said this
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was kind of a toughy to find so that's
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why I was focusing on the top of that
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steeple item on top of that old building
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top also a scene from Bridget Jones's
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Diary the first one right in the Cene
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where it was a fight
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scene he was just showing the
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clip he was mentioning that because one
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of the actresses in that scene during
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the fight scene played Myrtle and Harry
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Potter is that's
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prisoner there was the Leaky cauldron at
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prisoner
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OAB you can see it behind the Tacos El
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Pastor saw in that bay
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door
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there and
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this very
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because it was and then they went there
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to do the lunch and the dinner and that
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stuff so
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was right so evidently after filming on
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top of the roof they went over here and
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had a few
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drinks to see the people most of the
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location because most of the
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har as I say he wants to do the chore at
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night because most of the scenes were at
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night dirty Lane say back in the day
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when prostitution was legal here that's
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why they got this nickname not Harry
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Potter related but fun fact
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this Pub is one of the few buildings
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that survived the great fire dated back
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to the
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1600s this building right here it's
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interesting he's adding in some non-h
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Harry Potter stuff which is kind of
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fascinating little historical stuff I
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really like this
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guy also this is a very lengthy tour I
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think in total it's going to be about 3
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and 1/2 hours there are other tours but
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I chose this one because it's the
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longest the other ones are like 2 hours
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and he said that he really loves the
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movie so much he wants to go into
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details and show some spots that the
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other tours don't show Army is like a
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Canon stff so they to bring New York to
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London so it's like like to the cars and
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the stuff couldn't came to this part of
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the city so right now as you can
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see definitely recognize this bridge
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there's a scene where Bridge gets
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destroyed Millennium bridge I think he
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said it was built in
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2000 it's a very unique looking Bridge
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is cross over the bridge so in the
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bridge this is where the Death Eaters
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destroy the bridge and when you turn you
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can see the cathedral off in the
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distance you can see it prominently in
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the scene
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he was also
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saying it was used in one of the other
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Potter movies the staircase that they're
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climbing up and
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down play prisoner of
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vabon the staircase was inside this
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cathedral which almost looks like a
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capital building right and they also
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used the same inside of it and the same
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staircase in one of the sequels to
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Mission Impossible Tom
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Cruz and of course they digitize the
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destruction of the bridge for the Death
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Eater
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seene but when you watch it you can
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definitely see this in the distance
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definitely pretty cool
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scene the death theaters are coming
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coming across London
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you can see we can't use it anymore it's
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close but it's one of the
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eight oh eight of
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these it's pretty neat there's only
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eight of these left in the entire city
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find the Gap all right so this is where
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they're going to the ministry of magic
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Mr Weasley doesn't know how to go
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through it so he goes backwards so the
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guide set you can also notice these like
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lights and everything right here the
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same
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he let us know there's like a spot here
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he said on the other side of big Benin
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it's like a 2 or three hour wait
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sometimes I get a photo with the
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telephone box and big Benin but this
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spot over here there was no one so I
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took a picture of me here look kids Big
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Ben Parliament telephone box just up on
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that the other night we're now walking
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over to the ministry of
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magic that turned out pretty cool I
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there was like a one minute wait
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said certain areas of the city where
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they have this angle from the other side
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very very lengthy to weit so nice to
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have a local guy giving you some little
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tips little hacks you definitely get
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your steps in on this stour too which I
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like definitely enjoy walking weather's
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nice cool and crisp
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so can't beat
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it in the books where is going to be the
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ministry of money so for the movies they
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are going to go where I'm going to show
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you back We Came From The Underground
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and if you remember they have to close
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themselves in a toilet to the toilet to
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be there just in the black sculpture as
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you can see we don't have any toilet
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but they built the toilets right there
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and they
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went where they go to the
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Min yeah here and I know you to see most
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of these building
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I love that scene where they get flushed
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down the
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toilet so they built the toilets in the
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middle of the road yeah I
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mean I think with computer okay of
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course I think so because I don't
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think but to see because when I saw this
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thing it was very funny it's like it's
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in the middle of the road to go to the
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the hotel is right there the yellow one
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because we are like 10 minutes right
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now and it's very safe it's qu we are in
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the center of the
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city so this one I look and the C room
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is 650b per
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I think I recognized this SC I think
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this is where the lift
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was if they go down into the ground the
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telephone box interesting when they
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built another one of these
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here another Archway and the telephone
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box was right there you could see that
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building in the background
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so just to reiterate they come walking
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out of here telephone box was over there
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they went down into and then when they
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come out of the ministry of magic to
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come out of that door that still looks
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as and Ron was right
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here looking around this corner looking
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that
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way pretty deep
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Ministry of magic back
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there the whole time I've had the Harry
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Potter soundtrack in my head playing the
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tune over and over as I'm walking
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through here John Williams classic
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soundtrack there is a Sherlock Holmes
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Pub look at this that's pretty dang
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cool right it's like a little English UK
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Pub named after Sherlock
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Holmes going in through this little
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Corridor called The
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Arches shopping right
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here all right we're walking now he's
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Tak us over to an alley that was the
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inspiration he a rolling use it as the
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inspiration for nocturn Alley which
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which is a little more of an evil sleazy
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alley than Diagon we're heading over
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there now 55 56 St Martin
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court it's right off that road I was
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just walking
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on oh my gosh yeah I can already kind of
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see it here look at
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this so welcome to
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this is the inspiration for nocturn Ali
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this Ali is from the
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16
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Century
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so used to work near
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a here
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and used to leave near CL and Jackson I
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live right there but it's a coincidence
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because when I moved to London it was
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like I need to find a room and then it's
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like oh I'm living near
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oll this is why we have this beautiful
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Street s road and
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C you have here bre this
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wel because it's right now it's an
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apartment it's an and so right now they
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are taking the money saying that SEC
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here and you have
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a of course that's cool
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so is very interesting first of all
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because we have this is so
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windows we have the bricks the original
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on dirty with the chimy and we have
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orinal glasses all the glasses that have
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the CES used to be handmade so they have
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to cut it this is why these glasses are
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like 2,000 years 200 years
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ago this is so dang
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cool who's also saying that JK used the
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initial
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JK that way they wouldn't know the
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original writings were a man or a
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woman she used to live on service a name
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called service which ended up being the
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character snap's first name I never
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realized
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that I had heard it but I definitely had
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forgotten that
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all right pretty interesting he also
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just showed a clip from Mary Poppins
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returns a sequel from 2018 to Mary
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Poppins they filmed right here in this
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alley one
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just like that back out into the regular
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streets
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and as it turns out we start Circle back
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in at the square where the Harry Potter
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sculpture is and the the front of it and
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I didn't realize it but right over near
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where the Harry Potter sculpture is is
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where the movie theater where all eight
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of the premieres took place and the red
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carpet was right here along this little
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walkway here where the guy riding the
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bike is going past right there he's
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walking us over here I kind of
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recognized this what was seeing with
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harmione walking through here I think
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harmione and Harry perhaps walking
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through here if I remember correctly
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where they're walking you see the cinema
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sign so if you look up where the cinema
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sign is the three of them Ron Harry and
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harmione and you can even see these
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right here as they're walking this way
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that was a Deathly Hallows I think part
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one deathly one one last spot after
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walking out of where we just were which
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is there the three of them three of the
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main cast were walking we're going to go
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back over to padilly soon as his car
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passes just explained there was a few
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scenes in picadeli Picadilly as well and
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the chore just ended I got to say the
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chore was really really good highly
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recommend it as I stated earlier there
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are more locations of the ones we went
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to but I will say he really packed a lot
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of different spots a lot of walking a
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lot of taking the subway system the
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underground the tubes to knock out as
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much as we could in the 3 and 1/2 hours
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very content with it I thought about
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just doing some of the locations myself
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but I figured I'd be good to have a
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guide and I recommended the name name of
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his tour I guess he's just kind of
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started it within the last couple years
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is the most complete and exclusive Harry
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Potter tour in London that's the name of
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his
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company 3 and 1/2 hours and I think it
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was about $25 and I don't know if that
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was us money or if it was pound it
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around $30 I think probably see 25 us
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would be 30 lb either way about $30 give
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or take a little bit and based on his
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recommendation I went inside the LEGO
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store it's Picadilly circus where they
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had a lot of Harry Potter
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stuff which is pretty neat to see too a
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lot more than I expected I was thinking
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maybe they just have like Harry Potter
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and maybe harmione and Ron but they had
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they had a whole cast of characters in
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there which is pretty pretty neat to
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see all right that's going to do it for
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today thanks for watching I'll see you
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in the next video the Vlog
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also all of London at least the areas
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I've walked around just give me that
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Harry Potter Vibe everyone dressed in
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like
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the their jackets and
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their there scarfs just has
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the just feels like I'm just walking
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around Harry Potter movie at all times
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which kind of makes sense because this
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is where JK lived
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and wrote the books Etc or at least
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based it on a lot of things around
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here also you mentioned I'm not an
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expert on the Potter films I just really
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like them definitely people who know a
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lot more my guide knew a lot that's
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going to do it for today thanks for
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watching I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog is over