26/06/2017 Newsround

You're with Newsround this morning - hope you had a magical weekend.

It's 20 years today since the world met Harry Potter and friends.

But first, it's been 20 years since the first

Harry Potter book was released, but did you know that a lot

of the ideas for the books came from real-life places right

The first stop on our Harry Potter tour is a little cafe in the heart

of Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh.

This is the place where JK Rowling used to come to write

the Harry Potter books, and she'd sit in this exact seat.

Now people come from around the world to visit it.

And if you look out of the window from this spot, there's one pretty

big clue about where the idea for her wizarding school came from.

Our second landmark, Edinburgh Castle,

"Perched atop a high mountain, its windows sparkling in the starry

sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers."

The books are packed full of characters with unusual names -

Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, Narcissa Malfoy.

Some of them she got from the names of flowers, stars,

Others she got from places like this.

Four, the reptile house at London Zoo.

Potter fans will recognise this as the first place where we really

"It was cool and dark in here, with little windows

Harry sat up and gasped - the glass front of the boa

Five, King's Cross station, London, where our journey comes to an end

Not only does he meet his best friend Ron here, but it's also

the spot where he takes the Hogwarts Express

A scarlet steam engine was waiting next to a platform

A sign overhead said 'Hogwarts Express, 11 o'clock,'

And the Harry Potter books aren't just a brilliant read -

lots of you have found them really helpful.

I love Harry Potter because it's just an amazing story, it's

I love Harry Potter because it's such a creative and imaginative

series of books, and it allows your imagination

It's just one of those things that when you're feeling sad,

just pick up a Harry Potter and suddenly you get taken away

If I was feeling sad or something, I just read Harry Potter and I start

Everything they do is kind of teaching you just

Recently I had to deal with the death of my grandad

and I found that really upsetting, but then I looked back

at Harry Potter and he's such a courageous character,

and I just looked back at the quotes, for example,

"Happiness can be found in even the darkest places," and that just

It's really inspiring to see how much someone can go through,

and when he's talking to Ron he's still happy at the same time.

I moved earlier this year and I think that when I read

Harry Potter it helped me because it helped me with the transition

I made, because of the transition he made when he went from growing up

with muggles to going to a wizarding school.

If I'm down, I just pick up the book and my mind goes

Harry Potter has definitely inspired me to write more stories

and do more writing at home when I'm bored.

I just go and grab Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire,

It's been a packed weekend of music at Glastonbury,

and Ed Sheeran closed the festival with an amazing set.

Ed played without a band as usual and got the crowd to sing along

with him on his hits such as Thinking Out Loud

There's a few arguments going on in the sporting world right now -

listen out for the words "disgusting" and "desperate"...

Rugby Union first, and British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland

has been called "desperate" by All Blacks boss Steve Hansen.

Gatland had said that New Zealand illegally targetted Lions scrum-half

Conor Murray during the Lions' first Test defeat in Auckland

and could have caused a career-ending injury.

Meanwhile, on the race track, Lewis Hamilton called

Sebastian Vettel's driving "disgusting" after the two clashed

The race included included three safety cars and lots of crashes.

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo won the race.

Next, this bull is definitely not a cricket fan.

The cheeky animal interrupted this match in Bollington,

Nobody was hurt and, once the bull had gone, play continued.

Make sure you head online because we have a special Harry Potter vote, we

want to know what animal you would take to hot quartz. That closes

today at around 3:30pm. See you later, goodbye.

Becky is making a scrapbook for her hero,

and Little Roy wants to find out who it is in Little Roy, coming up next.