Editing Places in Harry Potter (section)

==Business==
===The Leaky Cauldron===
The Leaky Cauldron is described as a dark and shabby pub and inn, located on the Muggle street [[Charing Cross Road]] in London. The Leaky Cauldron is a way of entering Diagon Alley from the Muggle world. The rear of the pub opens onto a courtyard, in which a particular brick must be tapped three times to open a path to Diagon Alley.

===Diagon Alley===
Diagon Alley{{Efn|"Diagon Alley" is a pun on the word "diagonally" to which a point is made when Harry mispronounces it in ''The Chamber of Secrets''}} is a winding London [[High Street|high street]] – with a number of side-streets and back alleys – that is accessible to wizards, but hidden from Muggles. It contains Gringotts Wizarding Bank and various types of shops for magical items and creatures.

====Shops and Places in Diagon Alley====

* '''Eeyelops Owl Emporium''' sells owls, which deliver wizard mail.<ref name="HP1_5">{{HPref|book=1|chapter=5}}</ref> It is here that [[Rubeus Hagrid]] purchases the snowy owl [[Hedwig (Harry Potter)|Hedwig]] as a birthday gift for Harry.
* '''Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour''' sells ice cream and other treats.<ref name="HP3_4">{{HPref|book=3|chapter=4}}</ref> In ''Half-Blood Prince'', the parlour is boarded up and Mr Fortescue has gone missing.
* '''Flourish & Blotts''' sells a variety of magical books including Hogwarts textbooks.<ref name="HP3_4" />
* '''Gambol and Japes''' is a wizarding joke shop.
* '''{{Visible anchor|Gringotts Wizarding Bank|Gringotts|Gringotts Bank|text=Gringotts Wizarding Bank}}''' is the only wizarding bank mentioned in the novels. It is operated primarily by [[Goblins (Harry Potter)|goblins]] and contains vaults that are protected by very strong and complex security measures.<ref name="HP1_5" />
* '''Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions''' sells robes and other clothing.
* '''The Magical Menagerie''' sells magical creatures and offers advice on animal care. It is here that Hermione purchases her cat [[Crookshanks]].
* '''Ollivanders''' is a [[Magical objects in Harry Potter#Wand|wand]] shop owned by the wandmaker [[List of supporting Harry Potter characters#Garrick Ollivander|Mr. Ollivander]]. His shop closes in ''Half-Blood Prince'' after he is kidnapped by Death Eaters. He is rescued by Harry and his friends in ''Deathly Hallows''.
* '''Potage's Cauldron Shop''' sells various types of [[Magical objects in Harry Potter#Cauldron|cauldron]]s.<ref name="HP1_5" />
* '''Quality Quidditch Supplies''' sells [[Broomsticks in Harry Potter|broomsticks]] and [[Quidditch]]-related items.
* '''Slug and Jiggers Apothecary''' sells scales, potions and potion ingredients.
* '''Twilfitt and Tatting's''' is a clothing shop.
* '''{{Visible anchor|Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes|text=Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes}}''' is a popular joke shop founded by [[Fred and George Weasley]]. It sells joke and trick items, useful novelties, sweets, and items for use in defence against the Dark Arts. The shop is temporarily closed in ''Deathly Hallows'', but Fred and George continue to run an owl-order service. In the play ''[[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child]]'', George and his brother Ron manage the business.
* '''Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment''' sells various types of equipment used in the wizarding world.
* '''Market Stalls''' – Diagon Alley contains a variety of stalls which sell magical objects, sweets and trinkets. After Voldemort returns, some wizards illegally peddle amulets and other objects which they claim can protect against [[Dementors]], [[Magic in Harry Potter#Inferius|Inferi]] and [[Magical creatures in Harry Potter#Werewolf|werewolves]].

===Knockturn Alley===
Knockturn Alley{{Efn|"Knockturn Alley" is a play on the word "nocturnally".<ref>{{cite book |last=Boyle |first=Fiona |url=https://archive.org/details/mugglesguidetowi0000boyl/page/255 |title=A Muggle's Guide to the Wizarding World: Exploring The Harry Potter Universe |publisher=[[ECW Press]] |year=2004 |isbn=1-55022-655-X |page=[https://archive.org/details/mugglesguidetowi0000boyl/page/255 255]}}</ref>}} is described in the novels as a dark and seedy alleyway diagonal to Diagon Alley. Many of the shops in Knockturn Alley, such as {{Visible anchor|Borgin and Burkes|Borgin & Burkes|text=Borgin and Burkes}}, are devoted to the [[Dark Arts (Harry Potter)|Dark Arts]]. Objects that have appeared in Borgin and Burkes include a cursed opal necklace, a [[Hand of Glory]], and a [[Vanishing cabinet|Vanishing Cabinet]] which is used by Draco Malfoy to infiltrate Hogwarts in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]]''. Voldemort worked at Borgin and Burkes briefly during the 1940s. The shop is owned by Caractacus Burke and Mr. Borgin, though Mr. Borgin is the only owner to appear in the novels and films.

===Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, King's Cross===
[[File:Platform9.75 - 2012.jpg|thumb|Following the success of ''Harry Potter'', a sign reading "Platform 9¾ " was installed at London's King's Cross railway station.]]

The [[Hogwarts Express]] train departs from the fictional platform 9¾ at [[London King's Cross railway station|King's Cross]] railway station in central London. The platform is accessed by magically walking through a solid barrier between platforms 9 and 10. After the ''Harry Potter'' novels were published, Rowling found that she had confused the layout of King's Cross with that of [[Euston railway station|Euston station]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hp-lexicon.org/muggle/encyc/muggle-k.html#kings_cross|title=The Muggle Encyclopedia|access-date=12 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724195244/http://www.hp-lexicon.org/muggle/encyc/muggle-k.html#kings_cross|archive-date=24 July 2007}}</ref> During production of the ''Harry Potter'' films, the [[St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel]], which is part of [[St Pancras railway station|St Pancras station]], was used for King's Cross station.

A plaque depicting the supposed location Platform 9¾ was placed on a wall at King's Cross, along with a luggage trolley "stuck" halfway through the wall. A wrought-iron "Platform 9¾" gate used in the film set is preserved at the [[National Railway Museum]]. After [[Alan Rickman]]'s death in 2016, ''Harry Potter'' fans created a memorial to the actor at Platform 9¾.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gettell |first=Oliver |date=14 January 2016 |title=Alan Rickman dies: Harry Potter fans honor actor at Platform 9¾ |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/14/alan-rickman-dies-harry-potter-tribute-platform-9-34 |access-date=15 January 2016 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> A ''Harry Potter''–themed store is also located in the station near the plaque.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Simpson |first=Fiona |date=1 September 2018 |title=Back to Hogwarts day: Harry Potter fans descend on King's Cross with a surprise appearance from Jude Law and Eddie Redmayne |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/harry-potter-fans-descend-on-kings-cross-for-back-to-hogwarts-day-a3925281.html |access-date=2018-11-23 |work=Evening Standard|location=London |language=en-GB}}</ref>

There is a replica of King's Cross at [[The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Orlando Resort)|The Wizarding World of Harry Potter]] themed area at [[Universal Orlando Resort]]. It features a wall between Platforms 9 and 10, which visitors can "walk through" to access Platform 9¾.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQdReb_tMWg |title=Hogwarts Express Train Ride Full POV from Kings Cross Station to Hogsmeade at Universal Orlando |date=6 July 2014 |last=Temporary Tourist |access-date=2 July 2015 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/hQdReb_tMWg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live |format=YouTube video}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== Hogsmeade ===
Hogsmeade Village, or simply Hogsmeade, is a wizarding village located near [[Hogwarts]] in the north-west [[Scottish Highlands]]. It primarily consists of a single thoroughfare called High Street, which is home to shops and pubs all served by the Hogsmeade railway station nearby. Hogwarts students who are in their third year or above are permitted to visit Hogsmeade during scheduled weekends. In the films, it is only seen in under mid-winter snow.

'''Places in Hogsmeade'''

* '''Dervish & Banges''' sells and repairs magical equipment.
* '''Gladrags Wizardwear''' is a clothing shop full of quirky merchandise, including a selection of strange and unusual socks.
* '''Honeydukes''' is a popular sweets shop. There is a secret passageway in the cellar that leads into Hogwarts.
[[File:Glenfinnan Viaduct - 2022.jpg|thumb|right|''[[The Jacobite (steam train)|The Jacobite]]'' steam train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct in 2022]]
* '''Hogsmeade Station''' is a train station where the [[Hogwarts Express]] stops. Scenes depicting Hogsmeade Station in the ''Harry Potter'' films were filmed at [[Goathland railway station]] on the [[North Yorkshire Moors Railway]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horton |first1=Glyn |title=Horton's guide to Britain's railways in feature films |date=2007 |publisher=Silver Link |location=Kettering |isbn=978-1-85794-287-3 |page=78}}</ref> Extensive filming of the Hogwarts Express for the ''Harry Potter'' series took place on the West Highland Line with the [[Glenfinnan Viaduct]] located at the top of [[Loch Shiel]] in [[Inverness-shire]], Scotland. The scene of the flying [[Ford Anglia]] meeting the Express train is on this viaduct in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' and in the following ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' film, the train stops there for the [[dementors]]' inspection just before entering Hogsmeade Station. In later films, filming took place on the same rail-line as it crossed [[Rannoch Moor]].
* '''The Hog's Head''' is a filthy pub owned by [[Aberforth Dumbledore]]. A few months before Harry was born, [[Sybill Trelawney]] uttered a prophecy in The Hog's Head which connected Voldemort and Harry. In ''Order of the Phoenix'', the first meeting of Dumbledore's Army is held at The Hog's Head. During ''Deathly Hallows'', Aberforth reveals a secret passage in the pub that leads into Hogwarts.
* '''Madam Puddifoot's''' is a small teashop located on a side street. On [[Valentine's Day]], floating cherubs throw pink confetti on visiting couples. In ''Order of the Phoenix'', Harry and [[Cho Chang]] visit Madam Puddifoot's on Valentine's Day.
* '''Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop''' sells stationery items such as quills, ink, parchment and envelopes.
* '''The Shrieking Shack''' stands on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, with boarded-up windows and an overgrown garden. It was built as a hiding place for the werewolf [[Remus Lupin]], then a Hogwarts student. He accessed the shack from a secret tunnel underneath the [[Whomping Willow]] on the Hogwarts grounds, and would stay there during his monthly transformations to avoid harming fellow students. Nearby villagers heard Lupin's howling and a rumour started that the shack was haunted by spirits.
* '''The Three Broomsticks''' is an inn and pub known for its delicious [[butterbeer]].
* '''Zonko's Joke Shop''' sells joke and trick items.

===La Place Cachée, Paris===
'''La Place Cachée''' or '''The Hidden Square''', as seen in the film, ''[[Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald]]'', is close to the [[River Seine]] and is the Parisian equivalent to Diagon Alley in London to hide the shops and businesses of the Wizarding World from Muggles.  It is accessed via a portal in a brick pedestal under a [[verdigris]] bronze statue of a reclining woman. Seen in 1927, its style and design is heavily influenced by the [[Art Nouveau]] style from late 19th and early 20th centuries.