<p>I always expect the stairways to start moving in the science building at Wellesley.</p>
<p>I need to find a school with a very good library - that is actually one of my admission factors, haha. If I don't feel comfortable in the library, it's a nada for me.</p>
<p>I think one of Georgetown's libraries resembles something that could be in Harry Potter:</p>
<p>Wow, that place is beautiful</p>
<p>Wellesley, Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr, at least in terms of architecture. The library ar MHC is particularly evocative of Hogwarts. Fabulous.</p>
<p>Some of these library pics are absolutely gorgeous. Does anyone have any other pictures to post?</p>
<p>I've been looking at different colleges libraries on the their websites and I've found barely any beautiful libraries. Hopefully I'm just not looking hard enough because I don't want to be studying in a concrete box for 4 years.</p>
<p>well you should like the Bodleian library at Oxford but it is a reading library not a lending library- rumor has it King Charles I was refused permission to borrow a book.</p>
<p>I agree with Coureur. At the Harvard info. session, they even joked a little about how the way in which you find out which "house" you get assigned to at the end of freshmen year is akin to Hogwarts minus the sorting hat! And the freshman dining hall (Annenberg) looked like the set of the one at Hogwarts! But the building architecture at Yale is more like Hogwarts.
Susan</p>
<p>Vassar has some hogwarts areas, Wellesley as well.</p>
<p>Annenberg, most definitely!</p>
<p>Hogwarts? Hmmph!</p>
<p>Look at [url=<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/giving/ag/Lumina_Princetonia/index_content.html%5Dthis%5B/url">http://www.princeton.edu/giving/ag/Lumina_Princetonia/index_content.html]this[/url</a>] :) <em>sighs blissfully</em></p>
<p>At Yale, students are sorted in their first year like at Hogwarts. Plus there are both academic and athletic competitions between the houses (residential colleges).</p>
<p>Cambridge in the UK is the ultimate Hogwarts lookalike!</p>
<p>Since the class of 2009 was in 6th grade when the first Harry Potter books came out, will this be a new category in future versions of college guide books? </p>
<p>anyway, the dining halls at Pomona & Kenyon both reminded my D of the dining hall at Hogwarts. At Kenyon the tour guide said they had considered using theirs before the filmmakers decided to shoot entirely in the UK...</p>
<p><a href="http://www1.kenyon.edu/tour/peirce.phtml%5B/url%5D">http://www1.kenyon.edu/tour/peirce.phtml</a></p>
<p>Oxford University has been used quite a bit for filming the Harry Potter books.</p>
<p>The Dining Hall at Hogwarts and the stone staircase the students go up to reach the Hall are both at Christ Church, Oxford, one of the colleges there.<br>
<a href="http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/modules/standard/viewpage.asp?id=485%5B/url%5D">http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/modules/standard/viewpage.asp?id=485</a></p>
<p>You would find a dining hall with long parallel tables and "high table" for the tutors on a dais at the end of the room in virtually any Oxford college (and probably Cambridge too). </p>
<p>I know that they have also been filming at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The Divinity School, which is the oldest part of the Bodleian is the Hogwarts hospital and Duke Humfrey's Library, which is the next oldest, has been used for the Hogwarts library and looks the part with almost no dressing up. Pictures of Duke Humfrey's and other locations in Oxford are here: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/harry_potter/mainlocations.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/harry_potter/mainlocations.shtml</a></p>
<p>Oxford; a lot of Harry Potter was filmed there. It is very Hogwartsesque.</p>
<p>Wellesley definitely reminded me of Hogwarts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.library.georgetown.edu/advancement/endowments/images/endowriggs.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.library.georgetown.edu/advancement/endowments/images/endowriggs.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/riggs.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/riggs.gif</a>
<a href="http://www.hpnonline.com/georgetown_pictures/Georgetown%20pics%202/110_1099.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.hpnonline.com/georgetown_pictures/Georgetown%20pics%202/110_1099.gif</a>
<a href="http://philodemic.georgetown.edu/Photos/Merrick2003/images/riggslibrary_JPG.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://philodemic.georgetown.edu/Photos/Merrick2003/images/riggslibrary_JPG.jpg</a>
<a href="http://data.georgetown.edu/guide/tours/data/images/image89.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://data.georgetown.edu/guide/tours/data/images/image89.jpg</a></p>
<p>Just some more pictures of Riggs Library at Georgetown.....</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins Peabody Library</p>