Hannah Magnuson Final Project

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Harry Potter EVERYTHING: The Sites and Sets of the Books and Films
The best and brightest Scottish writers

TABLE OF CONTENTS p101
p29
Read and share our p38
letters to the editor

Up North: behind
breathtaking views
and underground
poetry movement

Aberdeen historical p47
and literary guide p67
p112
Tour the movie set of p18
Hagrid’s Hut

Postwoman turned
poet: Take a walk in
Jen Cooper’s shoes

The best of Robert
Louis Stevenson and
JK Rowling’s city
Get local with novelist
Iain Bain’s hometown

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Departments

EAT DO
p.31 Haggis and shortbread and more p.62 National Museum of Scotland
p.36 Counting Sheep p.65 The UK in three days
p.42 “JK Rowling didn’t eat here” p.69 Quidditch for muggles

SEE READ
p.49 Top 5 jaw-dropping views p.72 Scottish Trust Book Awardees
p.53 Robert Louis Stevenson’s home p.79 Treasure Island excerpt
p.55 Three surprsing Scots p.81 Sneak peek at Rowling’s latest

58 Visit the Glenfinnan Viaduct, the real life location of Harry
and Ron’s flying car adventure from Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets.(Photo by duncan c/FLICKR)
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PORTKEY TO

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O POTTER’S WORLD
what to see, what to skip, and what tours
are worth your money

BY HANNAH MAGNUSON

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The University of Glasgow served as one
of JK Rowling’s inspirations for Hog-
warts. Photo by Irwin Thomas.

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The Potter Trail takes tourgoers to Lord
Voldemort’s grave (top right) and the
cafe where JK Rowling began her work
on the first novel (middle right). Touring
Scotland features a ride over the Glenfin-
nan Viaduct where the Hogwarts Express
famously crosses (bottom right). The
Grand Harry Potter Tour takes viewers to
Glencoe for the natural scenery (top left)
and set consturctions (bottom left) that
served as the filiming locations for many
of the movies. Photos by Alison Murphy

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Read



Meet the Best

New Writers

of 2016

The Scottish Book Trust announced
their awardees for this year’s up and
coming writers. Learn about the 11
recipients and peruse excerpts of
their works.

BY HANNAH MAGNUSON

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Sarah Urwin Jones, Nonfiction Karyn Dougan, Callan Award

Iain Bain, Fiction Louise Peterkin, Poetry

Jen Cooper, Poetry Greg Whelan, Fiction

Karen Ashe, Fiction Vicky MacKenzie, Fiction P.M. Freestone, Children’s

Rachel Plummer, Poetry Robert McGinty, Children’s
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All photos by Scottish Book Trust. Hare

The 2016 Awardees I thought we were alone
but last night I saw you grow
It’s a remarkable evening. Isn’t it a remarkable evening? The light has a soft quali- out of the field behind our house.
ty…the crepuscular light. All things seem possible in such light. All things. Uprooted, your too-long back legs
She is pausing. Casually now, easy. Sangfroid and insouciance… sangfroid and hauled out: a poor imitation, made
insouciance… from the same stuff, it seemed,
It is a good word, isn’t it? Crepuscular: meaning twilight, dusk…. as the cut hay bristling.
Don’t lecture her, you clown. How did you escape
such comprehensive mowing?
Not alone – three more
there, under the crackling pylon
and more again, the dark coming on,
prolific as dandelions.
I thought we were alone.
-Jen Cooper

Are you visiting our city for a particular reason? I don’t mean to pry, it’s just O Chorizo
that…Let me offer you some advice. Always look up. Always look up is my ad- Chop it this way: the horseshoe clean
vice to you. Let me explain. At the level of the street everything is homogeneous down the middle, half in the fridge for
and banal. You could be anywhere. Above and beyond is where real character is later.
to be found. There are great rewards for he …for he or she who is prepared to Now peer into its universe, gemmed
look beyond. The architecture will reward the effort. When you venture out this and celled
evening, or better yet in the morning, you will soon see. with fat and paprika. Anatomy
Now you just sound smug. You’re hopeless. You have no hope. Yet she is still of a stout wee genie.
listening. Wonderful eyes, just wonderful. Is it so very bad for me? Yes!
We are too concerned with the immediate, with surfaces, don’t you think? The you chuckled cheerfully. I was in the
young people of today particularly. The young people of today in my view don’t kitchen
have the…perspicacity. You and I, on the other hand... dicing the stuff up in a kitsch little
She winced. Oh Jesus, what are you saying, man? apron
Not that you are not… I didn’t mean to suggest… when you wrapped your arms round
You moron. me from behind
Generally speaking, individuals not in the first flush…individuals of that charac- sneaked a chunk into your mouth,
terisation, they will have learned to eschew impressions formed in the moment kissed me.
and practise reflection and mature judgement. That is my experience at any rate. Felt like I was in a Fifties sitcom,
On the whole. Generally speaking. one about a housewife and a vampire:
You are losing her. Once Bitten… The Bloodsucker Next-
Let me introduce myself. Ronald. It is my intention to extend the hand of friend- door...
ship…metaphorically, I mean. You don’t have to…unless… Of course it was cancelled. I still
buy it -
I like its butch taste. The garlic, the
pearls, and the ochre.
The way it stains everything, the
way it stains my fingers.

-Iain Bain -Louise Peterkin

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