Harvard Dining Hall Hogwarts

The walls are covered with portraits of the university s founders and it s pretty.

Harvard dining hall hogwarts. In order to become a true harvard student you must never refer to a dining hall as dining hall. In the sorcerer s stone the students arriving at hogwarts first ascend a stone staircase that in real life leads into the great hall of christ church college. I found an article by halie olson from the harvard page hogwarts vs. Many students that are harry potter fans like myself notice and comment on the parallels between harvard and hogwarts.

Are they actually similar you as. Good luck avoiding the freshman 15. Christ church s high ceilinged dining hall was a model for the one seen throughout the films with the weightless. Here we cheer on the football team not quiddich players and larry.

While a lot of the old harvard buildings look kind of like castles the dining hall might actually be hogwarts. D hall only if you want people to understand what you re talking about. For years harvard students have clung to annenberg hall as their connection to the wizarding world of harry potter if by some chance you haven t already noticed the freshman dining hall. With its stained glass windows long tables and arching ceiling it s hard not to imagine yourself sitting in the great hall at hogwarts.

Several other parts of hogwarts were filmed at oxford university. All freshmen eat in annenberg the largest dining hall on campus. Completed in 1874 the high ceilings wood panelling and stained glass of harvard s annenberg hall make it impressive enough to be fit for hogwarts finest witches and wizards. Despite the eerie resemblance of hogwarts dining hall to annenberg harvard is hardly a school of witchcraft and wizardry.