{"id":332,"date":"2006-12-12T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T00:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themovingcastle.com\/journal\/?p=332"},"modified":"2006-12-12T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T00:11:17","slug":"harry-potter-architectural-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themovingcastle.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Architectural Synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were reading the first Harry Potter book yesterday despite the fact that Harry Potter is the cockroach of literature.  <\/p>\n<p>And in this book, when the kids get to Hogwarts, there is a marble staircase in the entry hall.  <\/p>\n<p>Why is there a marble staircase in a Scottish castle?  I&#8217;m thinking if there were one we are talking about an entryway done in Rococo or Neoclassical Revival of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>So why in the movie is Hogwarts done in Scottish Baronial, a 19th century neo-gothic style?  Wherezz the marble staircase, peeps?<\/p>\n<p>Of course in the third movie which was directed by a Spaniard, we also have that weird wooden bridge, the mini-stonehenge, and the mini-Alhambra.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy stuff, man.<\/p>\n<p>This has been the Harry Potter Architectural Synthesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were reading the first Harry Potter book yesterday despite the fact that Harry Potter is the cockroach of literature. And in this book, when the kids get to Hogwarts, there is a marble staircase in the entry hall. Why is there a marble staircase in a Scottish castle? 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