Cambridge Chronicles: living at Hogwarts

Here is a small glimpse into my life here at Cambridge, and why it is remarkably like Hogwarts:

• My bed magically makes itself once a week. I'm pretty sure by house elves.  

There are little café’s/pubs around that look an -<----awful lot like Hogsmeade









There is a CLOAK ROOM. I kid you not. (it happens to house a toilet, but still...)

There are big paintings of college headmasters and mistresses in the dinning hall. And sometimes, early in the morning, I see their eyes move. i swear.

Formals and exams,  all the professors and TAs (or prefects, in this context) are wearing black wizarding robes. no joke.-->

I often hear parseltongue outside my window at night. (it might be russian, but it sounds like snake... )

• I bought a dough pie filled with some combination of strange meat from “The Cheese and Pie Man” at the market. Straight out of birdie botts. It was delicious.

• I go to my supervision up crazy spiral staircases—that I swear move every week.  The library has secret staircases that lead to restricted sections! (just kidding about the restricted sections). but there really are secret staircases



this is my campus. no joke.

• They play tennis on grass here; which is basically quidditch.

My supervisor, who works with me on creative writing, she is basically Professor Trewlaney. She has a long, thin nose. Lengthy, wild, stringy, reddish, grayish hair. She is brilliant, so kind, and incredibly articulate, except when she’s trying to spare my feelings, then she stumbles over her words.

One of my classes was a history class through the lens of British and United States intelligence. We studied covert operatives—I basically studied about auroras.

• There’s ginger beer—basically butter beer--I'll bet butter beer tastes better though.

Espionage/code breaking definitely feels like magic sometimes. I often felt in my lectures that my professors were teaching a potions class.

Punting looked an awful lot like first years being brought to the Hogwarts castle for the first time! Doesn't it?!

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We have formal dinners, in a GRAND dining hall, that literally looks like the Hogwarts hall:

Hogwarts Dining Hall

Kings College Dining Hall---I know right?!

can you see the secret door?

There's a secret door to get into Pembroke College.
That I frequently forget how to open...

There is definitely magic at this place.











How else would this guy fit into a trash can and sing?

I'm on my way!