This Saturday Hogwarts is coming to Annapolis Bookstore, Annapolis, Md., which is hosting an event where Harry Potter fans can "take your place under the sorting hat and receive a patch from your assigned house" (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherinthen), then students will be able to attend classes in divination, charms and potions, and the history of magic, followed by dessert at the Three Broomsticks.
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Last month, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange, Tucson, Ariz., joined forces with the Pima County Public Library to host a Potter Palooza, which drew 2,000 people to sample butterbeer, participate in numerous events and listen to a concert by Harry and the Potters.
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Entertainment Weekly featured 23 astounding props "that brought the Potter saga to life--and sometimes came to life themselves."
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Last July, EW toured the "magical sets" of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 at Leavesden Studios "just days before the magical scenery was to be dismantled--for one last glimpse at a spellbinding world."