Chained Books

[Margaret Dean]

Joanne0012 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., hp_lexicon at y... wrote:

> > 3 - there are little chains hanging over the books in the restricted
> > section
> 
> I believe that this scene was filmed at the chained library at Oxford.
> Pre-Gutenberg, books were so valuable that they were actually chained to the
> walls or shelves.  There's another famous one at Hereford, I believe.

My husband noticed this bit when we went to see the movie last
week (I didn't catch it), and we were chuckling about it on the
way home, because of course although in the Muggle world books
would be chained for the reason you give above, in the wizarding
world they could very well be chained to keep them from escaping
on their own!  We thought that was a nice touch . . .


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>