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Great building! Nice to see Harry's first encounter with the magical world in LEGO. I had seen your first version and I must say your new one is indeed better. It looks better smaller, more compact, with a tiled floor and a pavement. Although the overall style is simple, I really like it. The cauldron hanging on the front is a nice detail. I especially like the back of the building with the court to Diagon Alley, that angled window gives it a nice look. The interior is also very nice, good idea using those green bricks! Good luck in the contest!

Great Honeydukes, JimButcher! I really like the colours and the work with the tiles on the walls. The interior is also pretty, although simple but it's still nice. I like the Bogart in the attic. The cellar is a really nice addition, with the stone work and everything. It gives a weird picture of the building though, without a pavement or something. Good luck!

I'm not mad for him being in the set, there just could be another better figure in it. He'll be in three sets then. And I said it also, just turn the head and you'll have an extra Death Eater. For 50 EUR I certainly won't be complaining!

Looks pretty nice, thanks for the picture! What struck me first: the box looks way too big for what is is. But what it is, is looking awesome. It's basically a beautiful expansion (Astronomy and Ravenclaw tower) to the new Hogwarts set, which I still haven't got yet. I have to admit though it looks a bit bland, but I'm sure it will complement lovely with the new castle to create a big and awesome official LEGO Hogwarts castle! Looking forward to the interior, perhaps a statue? The figures are lovely to, I especially like Remus Lupin. He's one of my favorite characters and this new design reminds me of the Lupin designed by Tin7. And Neville looks great too. Sprout is a nice figure to get too. A bit disappointed about Goyle, no need for him. And Lucius Malfoy is also unnecessary. Malfoy overkill, anyone? (Okay, sure, give him another torso and you have a random Death Eather). I'd rather have two students instead: one from Ravenclaw and one from Hufflepuff. And I love that background painting, would be nice to have it without the LEGO set in front of it. I hope the other sets will have some more new figures and not including a new Lucius Malfoy again.

Yesterday I bought 7952: Kingdoms Advent Calendar (20 EUR), 4738: Hagrid's Hut (42 EUR) and my dad bought 5766: Log Cabin (25 EUR) at the Brick Tricks event in Belgium. A pretty nice haul, it was a long time ago since I bought a couple of sets.

Good creation, Mr. Brick! There are a few representations of this inn now and all of them are unique. I like that your Three Broomsticks is based on the film version of the Hogsmeade houses, something I didn't dare to make on my own. The exterior is very unique and charming with such a roof. The interior looks bland, but the fireplace is nice. I hope you haven't wrecked this creation yet, so you can add figures and tables in the interior and share some pictures with us of it! Good luck!

Nice job, lakers88! The exterior reminds me very much of the film, it's lovely. That quidditch panel from the Burrow set fits just perfectly, great usage of it! I think the two coloured roof also fits well for a quidditch shop. The interior is also very nice, but a little bit bland. I like the broom and the mannequin with quidditch outfit. The capes are also nice, everything looks nice inside the shop. But perhaps some brooms hanging on the walls, even brooms hanging from the ceiling, would have made the interior more special and unorganized like the magical world itself. Good luck!

Great job, Oky! I love reading about this magical book store and they made it looking great in the film. You've managed to give me the same feeling. The outside looks magical with the different windows on the side, the lower is very nice with those windows and those golden parts. You've saved many parts with the usage of those big tiles but actually it fits pretty well. What I especially like is the charming interior! What a lovely representation of the book store! The brown, gold and tan combines so good. I like all the little details, the various books laying around and those giant books on the shelves look actually very good (nice job for saving parts again). The scene looks very much like in the film, you even got a photographer! I also like the references to the monster book and the invisible book. Awesome job and good luck in the contest!

Nice job, it's a lovely little hut with that limited amount of parts. A rocky surface would make it better, perhaps something you can think of for the future if you'll ever redo this MOC.

Wow, great job! It looks really like an official figure. The head design is very well done and the parts are well combined. That hairpiece works just perfect for a female vampire.

Nice job on the decals! Will you make some original ones to in the same style of characters who haven't been done in LEGO (yet)?

Great job! You've managed to do something I wasn't able, and you've done it very nice. The exterior is very nice with the little details and the curves. Everything looks like it suits the Lovegoods perfectly. It was surprising to see that lovely interior when scrolling down. I especially like the effect of the horizontal window and the floor itself on an angle. Lovely interior, as described in the book. Good luck!

Fantastic entry, Jalkow! I really like it. The scenery is very nice, but the tent is of course the highlight of your entry. The surprise of the unfolding in your video is very well done, great and creative presentation. And the idea itself is just genious! Good luck in the contest.

Hinckley, in the Netherlands of course! Know your LUGs, but there are many of them. For those who haven't seen it yet: here's my little entry, the Gaunt House.

The Gaunt House is located in the woods just outside Little Hanglenton. It was the home of Marvolo Gaunt and his children. The house is very small and they lived in poverty and deplorable conditions. Marvolo's daughter Merope is the mother of Voldemort. This is the place where Voldemort concealed Marvolo's ring, one of his Horcruxes. Later, Dumbledore found it and destroyed it. This creation depicts the scene where Harry and Dumbledore delve into Bob Ogden's memory as he goes to the Gaunt House. Ogden is confronted with Morfin, who has committed a crime. Later in the chapter Dumbledore tells about the ring and also how Merope became the mother of Voldemort. More pictures at: Brickshelf: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=459507 Flickr: MOCpages: http://mocpages.com/moc.php/249053 Phew, I'm going to be honest: this was hard. Just, the whole contest and especially the piece count (normally I'm under 1000 but I'll have to recount it). I started with the idea of making the Lovegood house, but it just didn't work out (I'm going to post some WIP pictures very soon), then I wanted to make a shop or something but I saw many of them already entered (awesome entries) so I wanted to stay original. Then I was going to make The Three Broomsticks in my usually style of Hogsmeade buildings, but that's also not very original for this contest. So I made something totally new, never seen before in LEGO and in the films. It's pretty important place and the Harry Potter vibe is still there I think. I just hope you'll like it! There's some tough competition in this contest, but it doesn't hurt to enter. Good luck to everyone!

I don't mind it either, it's a great entry. I just think the rule is there so no one will exaggerate with their entry. And all the entries look great already! I'm noticing these rule policemen a lot during the LEGO Harry Potter Month(s). All I can say: chill out and mind your own creation.

Katharine Zoeker Flanders' most famous Quidditch player In 1473 the Wizard Council organised the first ever Quidditch World Cup. The final match was an intense game between Transylvania and Flanders. During the match all 700 fouls occurred, most of them invented in that game. Katharine Zoeker, Seeker of the Flanders' team, scored the winning point by catching the Golden Snitch. She also set the record for flying the highest in a game of Quidditch. But is not well-known that her accomplishments were actually made by accident. Katharine was under influence of the Confundus charm, performed by the trainer of Transylvania, Peter Peterscu. He made her fly really high and away from the Quidditch field while Katharine thought she was going after the Golden Snitch. When she entered the mesosphere, Katarine started falling down and the Confundus charm had gone away. During her fall she amazingly managed to capture the Golden Snitch, delivering victory for Flanders. Various sightings of a woman flying on a broom were made amongst Muggles that day. Source: HP-Lexicon's Quidditch Timeline Brickshelf gallery Flickr page

Marakoeschtra over at Lowlug (Dutch) wrote an excellent review of this lovely set. The pictures are really nice and clear, I love the figures. Ollivander, Fred/George look awesome. It would have been even more awesome if the eyes of the goblins were black, but perhaps I'll buy a few more goblins and paint it black. I can't wait to get this set, but it isn't out yet in the Belgium shops who usually sell exclusive sets.

It looks really great so far with the dark grey parts. I like it and I bet it turns out beautiful. I think I have an idea for how to do those balconies, I'll try to work it out myself, take some pictures and I'll send it to you if you are interested (kind of hard to explain with words )?

That's a real shame, you were among the ones I suggested when they asked if I knew people who build LEGO Harry Potter creations. You're figures really should have been featured in the book, they're just awesome. I'm curious which creations they'll publish from me (I hope it's the Burrow and/or my Hogsmeade station) and I'm very happy to receive a free copy in the near future. But I only filled in the permission form a few days ago because I was buried with school stuff before, I really hope I'm still in it since they contacted me in the beginning.

So the nice Fairy tale & Historical pack is an education set is seems. I think we never see those kind of sets (Dacta) in stores, right? Anyway, here is the box art from bluemoose over at Flickr. I hope he'll provide us with some more information.

Potterization complete.

This is awesome! Just when I thought it's done and the theme finishes with a great set: news of new sets arrive. I've been thinking about it for a couple of days and the first thing I'd like to say: I don't think we should base ourselves on the size of the boxes on the image. Other than that, I can only support what others have said. The Forbidden Forest: a little set with some trees including a few figures of the following: Harry, Draco, Firenze, Voldemort, a unicorn and hopefully the film version of Fang (I just love him ). Although I already own the first Knight Bus, I'm looking forward to this one. LEGO's vehicles have really made great progress in the last couple of years so I hope it'll be a very different bus in lovely purple. The Battle for Hogwarts set is also pretty vague. It can be tons of things. I hope it'll be a part of Hogwarts with a couple of brand new characters in LEGO! Thanks for the news, I'm looking forward to the first pictures.

Nice job! It definitely resembles the Ministry of Magic in the films, which I like very much. The tiling matches the floor very well. It's always so busy there, so the crowd also matches. I like the detail of the flying notes. I especially like the statue, it simplifies the description in the books but it works so well in LEGO! Just a wizard standing on top of a skeleton, great idea. It's indeed very hard to photograph black LEGO bricks, try to do it in a well lighted place. Good luck!

Amazing! Really, I love it. It gives me a totally different vision on the wizarding world of Harry Potter, one less medieval than I had in mind and very wacky. And I think I like this vision. The exterior is really great, the red contrasts very well with its surroundings. The angled window and column make it look wacky and just perfect for a joke shop. The mouth and lamp post are also great. The exterior really has changed my idea of this shop and makes me rethink my own interpretation of Zonko's Joke Shop. The interior is lovely with all the different colours. And I also like all the different items, there's a great variation of wacky items! The tube giving light is a nice touch, and so is the Sneakoscope. I hope you'll make more interpretations of magic buildings from Harry Potter. The totally different feeling you've managed to create is just wonderful. I didn't say 'Harry Potter' to me when I first looked at it, but on a second glance it did. Good luck in the contest!