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Hm... That painting can't be right. There can't be a wall separating the forest and Hagrid's hut from the Whomping Willow. The events in book 3 wouldn't work.
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It's still going in the corner where the dresser is now. It gets moved tomorrow (urgh). It's also going on two side-by-side coffee tables, so my previous guesstimate of size is a bit ... off.
It's going to be 112 pegs wide by 128 pegs long. That's a square pegage of 3,136. The Quidditch field is out ... it would have to be shrunk to a very small size. When I move in a year, I might make it.
The Lego Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardy will feature: a Great Hall with a full size kitchen below; Entry Hall; Chamber of Secrets (oooh, ahhh); the Chess Hall/Hiding Place of Mirror of Erised/Devil's Snare Hall/Hall of Winged Keys/Potions Test Room/Troll Room; Forbidden Corridor with trap door; Dumbledore's North Tower office; Snape's Classroom with Office & Stores; Defense Against Dark Arts Classroom (complete with Neville Longbottom hanging from chandalier); McGonagall's Classroom; Flitwik's Classroom; Slytherin Dorm; Hufflepuff Dorm; Ravenclaw Dorm; Gryffindor Dorm; Washroom for Girls and Boys (and complete with Moaning Myrtle & secret passage to CoS); a few empty rooms; Divination Classroom (in tower turrett); Filch's Office; Trophy Room; Dungeon Cells (complete with skeletons?).
Construction to begin sometime in November. I've got help in the design process by my friend Allison who just finished the first four books a week ago. She's also going to help in the construction phase. Sadly, I have to provide all the bricks. So, thank goodness for BrickLink!
Anything else I should add? I think I know how to do the Chamber Pot room ... (the one that Dumbledore wonders can only be accessed by someone with a full bladder ...)
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I forgot to mention the Hospital Wing and the Library.
Oh -- custom figures for Moaning Myrtle, Professor Binns, and Professor Flitwick have been built.
Myrtle was accomplished with a Lego "ghost" figure topped off with a Dumbledore grey hair piece.
Professor Binns was much the same, but had a beard piece as well, and arms and legs on the ghost figure swapped for an Imperial Officer's darker grey arms and legs to give him a distinctive feature. Binns also got a grey beard.
Flitwick was the body of Boba from the Jango Fett Slave I set (with shortened legs), a "professor" face with glasses and white mustache from the Adventures Theme, a white beard, and a blue wizard's hat atop.
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You could include the prefects' bath from GoF. Should be easy. Just a room w/ a swimming-pool-like tub ringed w/ faucets.
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