Hi everyone and welcome.
My name's Kathryn
and today I would like to show you all my Harry Potter Christmas tree.
Now like many of you my favorite thing is Harry Potter and I also love
Christmas, so I put the two together and thought wouldn't it be fun to have my
very own Harry Potter Christmas tree so let's go from the top.
We have the house banners sat there along the back so we have Gryffindor,
Hufflepuff,
Then we have Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
And now let's go from the top to the bottom of the tree.
So starting at the top we have a very unusual tree topper, we have the sorting hat.
And then we have a very mischievous Cornish Pixie there pulling out the sword and hat.
The next section down is what I call the Harry section so if we have a look
we have Harry's acceptance letter there,
his glasses.
We have a little ornament there that represents his Patronus.
We have the entry from the Goblet of Fire,
a tiny little Hedwigger there,
and the Hogwarts crest.
So to represent each house on the tree we have their crests and
we also have coloured ribbon.
So let's have a look.
We have...
The ribbon here for Gryffindor.
And just down from this we have the Gryffindor crest,
and within this section on the tree they have loads of things on it.
So we have
Honeydukes Lolly.
And on this side we have one of my favourite ornaments on the tree
this is Ron Weasley's howler.
Again, we go down a section and we have ribbon to represent Hufflepuff.
and just down from the ribbon we have the Hufflepuff badge.
And we have a lot going on in this section we have a bit of everything thrown in here so we'll
start from this side we have...
we've got Hermione's Time-Turner there and then
more from the Ministry...
the Golden Snitch.
We have Chocolate Frog box,
Deathly Hallows there and the Weasleys car.
Next section down...
we have the ribbon to represent Ravenclaw
and their house crest.
And on this side, we have the Marauders Map.
Coming around here,
Ravenclaw Diadem there.
Little night bus.
And one of my favourites, we have Dolores Umbridge.
And then we leave the best section and house till last
and that's right I'm a proud Slytherin so let's have a look at the Slytherin section.
Here we have the ribbon,
and then we have the best badge.
And within this section we have some
quibbler glasses there.
A little mini Hogwarts Express.
And on this side, we have Slytherin Locket there and a nice little invitation for the Yule Ball.
Now it's really nice to put a train under the Christmas tree so
we went for the Hogwarts Express of course.
Here we go.
And on this side of the tree it wouldn't be Christmas without loads of sweets so we've got
Chocolate Frogs,
Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans,
Fudge Flies at the back there.
And we have lollies and cauldrons,
more delicious lollies here and on the
other side it's winter we have to be warm so we have the very famous Ron
Weasley jumper there with his wand and then we have a little Hermione's one
there with a love portion
So in total the tree took about eight hours to complete.
It also took me 12 visits to Warner Brothers Studios and I went back
and watched all the films again and read all the books again just to get a little
bit more inspiration for the surrounding of the tree so let's have a look at this side.
What I'd like to call the Platform 9 3/4 section we have the brown
trunk there that the students would take to Hogwarts, we have a Gryffindor scarf.
We then have Hedwig and a cage.
We have Harry's wand and his tickets for the Hogwarts Express.
Now the inspiration behind that was one of my visits to the Warner Brothers
Studios if you go off to Platform 9 3/4 they have some displays set
out like this and I thought wouldn't it be fun to have my own mini display
around the tree and try and represent that.
On this side, we have this very fine Nimbus 2001.
And our lovely Slytherin scarf there.
And one of the best things I think in my Harry Potter collection that I have we have
Lucius Malfoy's cane and wand.
So there we go.
It's quite heavy this one.
But it is one of the best pieces in my collection.
I'll pop that back.
Round this section, one of the funniest parts in the film I think is follow the spiders so we have...
a little line of spiders there.
We have quills.
Ready for our lessons at Hogwarts.
And then some other inspiration that I got from visiting the studio if you ever get the chance to go to Hogwarts
in the snow in December time, it's so magical.
In the Great Hall they have huge Christmas trees
and these Christmas trees are decorated in crescent moons and stars and they also have little witches
going around the top they're fabulous.
So I try to add a little bit of that magic to my tree so I copied a little bit and we have...
stars here,
There's also a clip of this on one of the films and there we have our little crescent moons.
Now, couldn't find crescent moons anywhere, so I decided I'll make them myself.
Dead easy, just bought some plain coke coasters, cup coasters, I cut them into shape and then dipped them in
glue and then I dipped them in the gold glitter and it was simple as that.
Just hoping that would bring a little bit more magic to the tree.
So, you're probably wondering where's Dobby and why isn't he on the Christmas tree?
But Dobby is a free elf and it wouldn't be fair to put him permanently on the Christmas tree.
So here's Dobby here.
He's got a little sock.
See, I'm not really a bad Slytherin.
So there you have it, I hope you've enjoyed my video and I would like to wish you all a very Harry Christmas.
Bye.