Talk:Places in Harry Potter

message: The citations for Chamber of Secrets chapters are showing up with "I like cheese" after them. I can't quite figure out how to change this vandalism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.69.135 (talk) 06:19, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. It was the template that was vandalized. --Stroppolotalk 11:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  I like cheese? 

message: What's the point of having this article called "List of places in the Harry Potter books" and then having a section called "Muggle locations used in the Harry Potter films"? 65.92.204.139 04:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Muggle Locations for filming' needs to have its title changed. It's one thing to refer to Kings Cross - which is featured in the books - as Muggle. The other places have never featured in the books. They are not 'muggle', they are 'real world'. Michaelsanders 09:08, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book or film? 

message: DarkMark.com is not a reliable source for verification on whether this is a school or not. According to Salem witch trials: "In the fourth book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a group of 'middle-aged American witches' are observed by Harry as sitting under a banner reading 'The Salem Witch's Institute' at the Quidditch World Cup. This is a probable reference to the Salem trials." If the witches were middle-aged, they would hardly be at school; the reference itself seems to be more of a pun on Women's Institute. Either way, without confirmation either within the books or from the author, :whether Salem Witches' Institute is a school or not is purely speculation, even if the speculation is linked back to a fan website such as DarkMark.com.
I'm moving Salem Witches' Institute from the schools sublist to the main list. --Foetus In Fetu 20:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salem Witches' Institute 

message: The seventh book seems to indicate that "Spinner's End" is a street and not the name of Snape's home.  Should it be removed from the list of places and left in the list of streets? GCD1 18:53, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spinner's End 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Theleakycauldron.jpg

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message: Somebody please ask Ms. Rowling what happened to Mr. Fortescue. Was he murdered? Was he kidnapped and later rescued? Did he run away and go into hiding? Das Baz, aka Erudil 15:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Please ask Mistress Rowling

message: Does anyone object to moving the article to Places in the Harry Potter series or something similar? Useight (talk) 23:10, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Title

message: St. Mungo's is introduced in Order of the Phoenix and I am always amused by the floor guide described in Chapter 22. E.g. "ARTEFACT ACCIDENTS" Ground floor : cauldron explosion, wand backfiring, broom crashes, etc." My question is, Is it too much information to include the entire quote in this article? or if included, should it be restricted to the names of the departments only? Or indeed really just too much information in a Wikipedia article of this nature? I will be guided by the opinions of others, as it is very tempting to "personalise" articles and thus detract form the over all intention of the project. Proxxt (talk) 05:17, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Mungo's Hospital 

message: Why the information on Hogwarts castle are not included on this article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.8.238.235 (talk) 05:29, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: See Hogwarts. faithless (speak) 05:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hogwarts Castle 

message: thanks for the article,
I think there is aמ inaccuracy about the Hogwarts Express and platform 9¾.
the article says: "which is invisible to Muggle eyes"
but first,  it is invisible also for wizards till they go throw the wall  and second,  Muggles do go sometimes to the platform and see the Hogwarts Express train. for example see Snape's memories in book 7 which describe Petunia and Lily's parents  (muggles) standing on platform 9¾.
Amnon  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.81.232.195 (talk) 16:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  inaccuracy about platform 9¾ 

message: Fred and George mention the location of their store in Chapter 29 of Order of the Phoenix. The store is described in such a way that indicates it is ready to be opened for business immediately. The Wiki article claims the store was opened in the summer segment of the following book.
Eyamseryath (talk) 21:56, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasley's Wizard Wheezes opening date 

message: Wasn't it burned to the ground in the sixth movie, creating disagreement between the book and movie, or did they supposedly save it in the movie?  Shouldn't this be mentioned in the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.212.106.138 (talk) 02:26, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Burrow 

message: It appears that both The Three Broomsticks and The Hog's Head pubs are credited in their entries as the headquarters of the historic Goblin Rebellion of 1612. Also the term "Goblin Rebellion" is capitalized in The Hog's Head and not in The Three Broomsticks. Finally, I must regretfully point out that Dates_in_Harry_Potter#Events does not list a goblin rebellion in 1612; in fact there is nothing listed for that year, nor does the cited Wiki list any goblin rebellions at all, although an early book reference indicates that there were so many that Ron couldn't keep them straight. Dick Kimball (talk) 19:28, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hogsmeade 

message: In my opinion there is no need to specify "fictional" in every paragraph.  I suspect that most of these paragraphs have been merged from separate articles in which it made sense to clarify this.  The introduction to this article makes it very clear that what follows is a list of fictional places and the repetition is quite tedious. Mezigue (talk) 10:51, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional fictional fictional 

message: Seems like there's a double standard.    Minas Morgul gets its own article despite playing a relatively small role in the LOTR trilogy, while Grimmauld Place, which is relatively more important within the Harry Potter series (and the series itself being much more popular than LOTR in terms of total book sales) not only doesn't get an article, but the article summarizing all the places in Harry potter gets nominated for deletion (twice)!  Seems like the anti-fancruft activists turn a blind eye to certain things that they happen to like.  76.85.196.138 (talk) 11:10, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  anti fancruft activism, applied unevenly? 

message: Ron, Hermione and Harry went to Upper Flagley, a wizard village, thinking they could find one of Voldemort's Horcruxes there,
and Upper Flagley isn't here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.92.88.219 (talk) 21:52, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upper Flagley 

message: Can someone check the use of exterior in the description of St Pancras for the platform? It seems confused
109.155.228.113 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exterior? 

message: Many scenes of the films were shot in the Bourne Woods near Farnham in Surrey(UK) - officially listed as HBP, DH1 & DH2, but I'm fairly sure it was used for earlier HP films as well. Some of the house scenes were shot in and around houses in the area.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20.133.0.13 (talk) 12:41, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filming Locations Omissions 

message: Is this list 100% accurate and complete? I am asking for a reason.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.228.228 (talk) 20:48, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this list 100% accurate and complete? 

message: Goblins are not a greedy race, they just have different views on gold, money and treasure to that of humans.
Griphook espouses this sentiment when Ron inadvertantly offends him by offering him anything they find when planning to raid the Lestrange vault, and Griphook responds with "I will not take that which is not mine!" - or words to that effect.  Whilst yes, they covet what they have, and this is why they believe that goblin gold belongs to the maker not the person paying for the item, their covetousness is only applicable to what they consider to be theirs in the first place.  Bill Weasley seems to be the only Wizard who understands this.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 14:20, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goblins are not greedy. 

message: On the French Wikipedia, a similar list reached today 170 Kb. A contributor decided to split the list and create an article about Hogsmeade, with a 27 Kb size.
I was interested to create the interwiki for this new article, and noticed en. is in a similar situation, with a 12K content, several sections.
A split could be interesting, especially to allow to treat sources and leave MOS:INUNIVERSE. --Dereckson (talk) 15:51, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

message: So are these actual creations of Rowling? (If so, which works do they appear it?) From fanfic which Rowling since approved of? Entirely things from fanfic? Or the creation of some prankster & needing to be deleted? Citations in some form would help these sections. -- llywrch (talk) 18:57, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I just spotted all this and removed those schools.  I guess it's from Pottermore? Mezigue (talk) 20:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  What do you mean that you guess? The Ilvermorny section, which I've restored, is littered with references. I can also confirm that Castelobruxo, which I didn't restore since it didn't actually have sources, at least appears in the Hogwarts mobile game, so it's not simply a work of fan fiction. It's extremely likely that none of these schools are from fan fiction, but it's true that without proper references a reader can't tell. -- Fyrael (talk) 21:53, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the schools of Mahoutokoro & Uagadou 

message: Hi! I see the discussion above regarding the additional wizarding schools, but I would like to add back a section at least on Castelobruxo as Rowling gives the background on Pottermore on this school in addition to confirming that this school is mentioned in the actual books (Goblet of Fire), when Ron is discussing Bill's pen friend from a school in Brazil. The majority of Ilvermorny's source is Pottermore as well, except the source from boston.com which get's its information from Pottermore; this is why I think using just Goblet of Fire and Pottermore as sources should be okay. Let me know if you're okay with this, thanks! -- Dylanregina (talk) 04:39, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm gonna go ahead and add it as it has been about 24 hours and I haven't seen a response. Let me know if anyone has any issues with this, thank you! -- Dylanregina (talk) 03:44, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Castelobruxo 

message: Sadly, beauxbâtons doesn't mean "beautiful wands" in french but "beautiful stick". A wand is called a "baguette magique" in french, shortened in "baguette" (yes, like the bread). "Beautiful wands" would have been "Bellesbaguettes". Absolutely no one in french call a wand a bâton. :D Matieu Sokolovic (talk) 12:29, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: While it's possible that nobody would choose to use bâton instead of baguette when talking about a wand, anyone who sees bâton in the context of the name of a wizarding school and isn't being intentionally dense would translate the word as "wand", not "stick". It's very obvious that the author wanted to use alliteration and trusted that the reader could look just barely past the literal translation. The sources support the translation. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:08, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beauxbatons 

message: I have changed the Beauxbatons article to redirect to the section of this article similar to Durmstrang which was changed to a redirect in 2007. I believe these schools have similar notability and should be treated similarly on wikipedia. Per Wikipedia:BLAR I have changed it to a redirect and putting a notice here. I incorporated the article content and references to the Beauxbatons section of this article. Mousymouse (talk) 05:15, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect from [[Beauxbatons]] 

message: Ottery St. Catchpole redirects here, Ottery St Catchpole to Ron Weasley. Is this intentional or should it be fixed? Sn KGS (talk) 22:56, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it seems to be a mistake. Both should point here. —El Millo (talk) 23:18, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

text: —El Millo (talk) 23:18, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ottery St. Catchpole