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I hate it when they do that. They called Norbert "Nortbert" on the description for Hagrid's Hut on Lego.com, too.

These are coming out in June, though, right? Even though the display card for the Forest said "Coming in August"...

I'm not saying the new Knight Bus is bad in general. I just said the Forbidden Forest and the Battle for Hogwarts seem like a better deal. I don't think the exterior of the new Bus is great, but it would definitely be a set worth getting, for Ernie, Stan, the shrunken head, Hedwig, and whatever is in the interior.

I don't think it's that unreasonable to have a skeleton on the bottom level, that's all I'm saying. I think the Battle is the best of the wave, too. The four rare minifigs make it a must-buy if you didn't buy the older sets with Goyle, Lupin, and Neville in them. The Forest is the second best in my opinion. 4 minifigs for 12 USD is basically a battle pack. Plus we get a new Narcissa, a tree, blue fire, a mushroom, and a cheap Voldemort and Hagrid. The Knight Bus (which I probably won't purchase) seems even worse than the older one. I love Ernie, though.

I could go check my copy of CoS now, to be honest, but I think it said there were skeletons and bones down there. They could belong to really old students.

Rather stupid? The bottom level would represent the Chamber of Secrets, where there are many corpses. Besides, the Killing curse would indeed result in a skeleton after the body decomposes. If you read the seventh book, you know Harry thinks "his parents would surely be bone or dust by now." His parents were killed by Avada Kedavra. I'm quite a nerd, too.

That there is. On the subject of the Battle, what are your "wishes" for what could be included in the interior if the set were incomplete? First, I would suggest there would be a complete skeleton in one of the bottom sections.

Those are two good ideas. For me, like I mentioned earlier, a 12 Grimmauld Place would be amazing. It would be open-faced on the back, and it would have the kitchen, a bedroom or two, an entryway, the drawing room, and Kreacher's bedroom. Of course, it would include Kingsley, McGonagall, Sirius, Lupin, Snape and Kreacher. Other possibilities would be the trio, Fred and George, Dumbledore, Buckbeak, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Moody, and Tonks. Also, I would like it to be a large, $100ish set.

I'm curious about that, too. Lego could be trying to drag out the theme as long as possible. They wouldn't want to use all of their ideas for sets so quickly. That said, there are plenty of good sets I could see Lego making for Harry Potter in the future, like a Grimmauld Place with several Order members. I don't think Lego HP will die out for a while. Many people thought it was done when the 3rd Hogwarts came out, and we've had 10 sets since then!

(First post!) Thanks for the picture! At first it looks a bit bland, but you notice more interesting details the longer you look at it. A chalkboard, a mirror, a broomstick, a skull, Gryffindor dorms, a globe, and a dining room. There are a few empty spots (the dungeons, and the second level of the right tower). But overall, I like the interior!