Platform 9¾: A Review

King’s Cross Station is one of the most important real-life landmarks to feature in the Harry Potter Books. Unsurprisingly it has become quite a pilgrimage for fans over the years, so of course someone has created a tourist installation and gift shop to give those fans something more to look at than a train station.

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Harry Potter Candles

In the last issue of this esteemed publication, I wrote an article about how book lovers are designing scented candles to try and mimic the smell of special fictional places and things. My first candle was ‘The Shire’ from the Lord of the Rings and I loved it so much that I bought ‘The Common Room Collection’, four Hogwarts house themed candles.

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