Harry Potter Stuff

Next we wandered by this cafe, The Elephant House. This is where JK Rowling wrote her first Harry Potter book. She was too poor to heat her house so she would come in the morning, get a cup of tea and write all day long by the window.

From the window you could see the Edinburg Castle …

And this private school, each thought to have helped inspire Hogwarts…

Next we walked through the Greyfriars cemetery across the street. She took some of the names for her characters from names on these gravestones. McGonagall…

And the infamous Tom Riddle….