quote:Is that the scale you're going for with Hogwarts?
Alright, *screw* the bookshelf! It's going to go on an IKEA coffee table about (roughly) 21" by 36". It means I gotta push the dresser back into the closet (so I have a place to put the Castle!), but ... well, okay!!!
I've got about half a notebook filled with sketches and designs. It's being modeled on the movie version of Hogwarts (but loosely). As I plan it, it'll have the Castle, Hogsmeade w/ the Hogwarts Express & the Shrieking Shack, Owl Post Office, Leaky Cauldon, Three Broomsticks, Hog's Head Tavern; Hagrid's hut, the Forbidden Forest (or, at least, a bit of it ...), and the Quidditch Field (with a viewing stand for each of the four houses). The castle itself is going to have both secret passages from Prisoner of Azkhaban into Hogsmeade; the Great Hall (with the kitchen below); the Devil's Snare, Winged Key Room, and Chess Room from Philosopher's Stone; dorms for all four houses; the Chamber of Secrets (accessible by a hidden passage in a girl's bathroom -- don't know if I'll make a Myrtle -- I've even got a toilet designed, ask Shik, he saw it); the Entry Hall from Goblet of Fire ... lots of cool and neat stuff.
I think it's going to have everything but the moving staircases ... but I might figure out a way to do even that ...
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Um... Isn't the "Leaky Cauldron" in London?
And exactly what do you mean when you say you're going to have dorms for each house? You mean you'll have four rooms you'll call the dorms, or you'll have all fifty-six bedrooms (four houses times two genders times seven classes)?
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Apparently this post is not "playing nice." I thought I made my point (that some people create things with Legos, and some people create things with computers, and I don't understand why someone who does one would make the decision that someone who does the other lacks a '[social] life') without insulting anyone or being mean (and I KNOW I did it without attacking anyone's writing skills or their hobbies).
Apparently, I was wrong. So fucking sorry to have bothered anyone.
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Hey, gang, let me tell you all about this game. It's called "Playing Nice." It's this really cool game that I learned way back in elementary school. You know, I think it was probably at the same point my catechism teacher was teaching us about "do unto others as you would have done unto you."
Anyway, you see, the deal with "Playing Nice" is that, get this, you deal with other people with respect and decency! I know, it's, like, totally out there and stuff, but you go to trust me: it's cool!
How it all works is that you don't make unfair and uncalled for attacks on anybody and everybody around you! You don't make baseless accusations against others, and, when the point must be made, you don't result to petty stuff like assaulting writing skills and personal hobbies. It's totally whacked, I know, but you have got to trust me that this is a really cool and great thing!
By all means, give it a try!
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quote:There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren't really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending. It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot. The people in the portraits kept going to visit each other, and Harry was sure the coats of armor could walk.
There are no maps of Hogwarts that I've seen. The closest I've found is this which gives the general locations of assorted rooms within the castle and their relation to each other.
I'm not going 100% by that page, either. I'm working with a "spirit" rather then "letter" design concept (if you get my drift).
quote:Or are you just going by descriptions?
The castle is very much going to be modeled on the one seen in the film ... especially the Great Hall! Somethings will be rather true to the book description, but I'm afraid much won't be ... I can't fit a giant statue of Salazzar Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets (I might get away with a bust of his head), and I certainly am not going to build a duplicate Great Hall beneath the actual Great Hall!
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