Platform 9-3/4

Yes, Harry Potter fans, there really is a Platform 9-3/4 at Kings Cross Station in London, and it really is between Platform 9 and Platform 10.

This family kindly agreed to let me show their photo of entering the brick wall like Harry and his friends.

Of course, the Harry Potter store is right there, and for a small fee you can be photographed at the platform wearing the scarf of any of the houses of Hogwarts.

But the queues for a photo--or just to get into the store--stretch for hundreds of feet! J.K. Rowling is really cleaning up! When we entered Kings Cross and I asked a railway worker about Platform 9-3/4, he said "If you want to get here when the queue is short, you need to get here at 7 a.m." 

I'm not that much of a Harry Potter fan that I would rise that early to get in, but it was fun to see people line up just to satisfy a fantasy. After all, "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

Note: The quote above, while spoken in "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," is actually an old saying with attribution inconclusive.