26/06/2017

Download Subtitles

Transcript

:00:12. > :00:15.Good morning, I'm Ricky with your first Newsround of the week.

:00:16. > :00:23.Did you know today it's 20 years since we met Harry Potter?

:00:24. > :00:25.On this day in 1997, the first Harry Potter book was released,

:00:26. > :00:28.and a lot of the ideas for his wizarding adventures came

:00:29. > :00:30.from real-life places right here in the UK.

:00:31. > :00:32.Jenny's been to check out our top five.

:00:33. > :00:36.The first stop on our Harry Potter tour is a little cafe in the heart

:00:37. > :00:39.of Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh.

:00:40. > :00:43.This is the place where JK Rowling used to come to write

:00:44. > :00:46.the Harry Potter books, and she'd sit in this exact seat.

:00:47. > :00:49.Now people come from around the world to visit it.

:00:50. > :00:52.And if you look out of the window from this spot, there's one pretty

:00:53. > :00:58.big clue about where the idea for her wizarding school came from.

:00:59. > :01:00.Our second landmark, Edinburgh Castle,

:01:01. > :01:08."Perched atop a high mountain, it's windows sparkling in the starry sky,

:01:09. > :01:13.was a vast castle with many turrets and towers."

:01:14. > :01:22.The books are packed full of characters with unusual names -

:01:23. > :01:26.Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, Narcissa Malfoy.

:01:27. > :01:28.Some of them she got from the names of flowers, stars,

:01:29. > :01:35.Others she got from places like this.

:01:36. > :01:39.Four, the reptile house at London Zoo.

:01:40. > :01:42.Potter fans will recognise this as the first place where we really

:01:43. > :01:49."It was cool and dark in here, with little windows

:01:50. > :01:55.Harry sat up and gasped - the glass front of the boa

:01:56. > :02:00.Five, King's Cross station, London, where our journey comes to an end

:02:01. > :02:06.Not only does he meet his best friend Ron here, but it's also

:02:07. > :02:08.the spot where he takes the Hogwarts Express

:02:09. > :02:13.A scarlet steam engine was waiting next to a platform

:02:14. > :02:18.A sign overhead said 'Hogwarts Express, 11 o'clock,'

:02:19. > :02:40.Lots of view have found the Harry Potter books really helpful. Have a

:02:41. > :02:42.look at this. I love Harry Potter because it's

:02:43. > :02:44.just an amazing story, it's I love Harry Potter because it's

:02:45. > :02:48.such a creative and imaginative series of books, and it

:02:49. > :02:50.allows your imagination It's just one of those things that

:02:51. > :02:58.when you're feeling sad, just pick up a Harry Potter

:02:59. > :03:01.and suddenly you get taken away If I was feeling sad or something,

:03:02. > :03:05.I just read Harry Potter and I start Everything they do is kind

:03:06. > :03:09.of teaching you just Recently I had to deal

:03:10. > :03:12.with the death of my grandad and I found that really upsetting,

:03:13. > :03:16.but then I looked back at Harry Potter and he's such

:03:17. > :03:19.a courageous character, and I just looked back

:03:20. > :03:24.at the quotes, for example, "Happiness can be found in even

:03:25. > :03:27.the darkest places," and that just It's really inspiring to see how

:03:28. > :03:33.much someone can go through, and when he's talking to Ron he's

:03:34. > :03:36.still happy at the same time. I moved earlier this year

:03:37. > :03:41.and I think that when I read Harry Potter it helped me because it

:03:42. > :03:45.helped me with the transition I made, because of the transition

:03:46. > :03:49.he made when he went from growing up with muggles to going

:03:50. > :03:53.to a wizarding school. If I'm down, I just pick up

:03:54. > :03:57.the book and my mind goes Harry Potter has definitely

:03:58. > :04:03.inspired me to write more stories and do more writing at home

:04:04. > :04:07.when I'm bored. I just go and grab Harry Potter

:04:08. > :04:10.And The Goblet Of Fire, It's been a packed weekend

:04:11. > :04:28.of music at Glastonbury, and Ed Sheeran closed the festival

:04:29. > :04:33.with an amazing set. Ed played without a band as usual

:04:34. > :04:36.and got the crowd to sing along with him on his hits such

:04:37. > :04:39.as Thinking Out Loud Next, this bull is definitely

:04:40. > :04:48.not a cricket fan. The cheeky animal interrupted this

:04:49. > :04:50.match in Bollington, Nobody was hurt and, once the bull

:04:51. > :04:54.had gone, play continued. That's all from me, Newsround's back

:04:55. > :04:58.right here in about half-an-hour. Good morning.

:04:59. > :05:08.Now, a quick question for you - have you ever heard of

:05:09. > :05:13.an animal called a pyrosome?