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You will find facades here of: King's Cross Station, Foyles bookstore on Charing Cross
Road, Leicester Square tube station, Wyndham's Theatre and 12 Grimmauld Place - home
of the Black family in the topics and films.
Hidden secret
: One cool feature of the waterfront is on the Grimmauld Place building.
If you look carefully at the windows every once in a while the curtain of one of them
will open and Kreature, the house elf from the Harry Potter series, will peer outside at the
muggles.
As well as the detailed facades, in front of Wyndham's Theatre visitors see the Statue of
Eros (which in real London is actually located in Piccadilly Circus, but we will allow this
incongruity for some theme park magic) and the only sign that this is a Harry Potter entry
area - the Purple Knight Bus. This Knight Bus features an interactive shrunken head ex-
perience as seen in the Prisoner of Azkaban film - more on this later in this section, as well
as a meet and greet with the conductor.
Visitors enter Diagon Alley through the façade of Leicester Square tube station and trans-
ition into the Wizarding World and Diagon Alley by a series of walls with strange brick
shapes and sound effects.
Once inside, Diagon Alley is laid out before you with shops on both sides, and the iconic
Gringotts Bank at the end of the road. Gringotts Bank houses the premiere attraction of
Diagon Alley, which we will come to later in the guide. It even features a fire-breathing
dragon on the roof.
Shops:
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