Harry Potter Theme Park

[Carol]

Katie wrote:
>
> I haven't seen much discussion of this. I am so psyched about it! I
wasn't sure at first how I felt, but as the idea grew on me, I 
realized there was nothing more I wanted in the world than to walk 
down Diagon Alley, to walk into Honeyduke's or get a butterbeer at the
Hog's Head...to buy robes at Madame Malkin's or stare with starry eyes
at the latest brooms floating in the shop window. I want to get money
at Gringotts (I hope I can change my "Muggle money" for knuts and 
galleons!), I want to just completely submerge myself in Potterverse. 
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> What is the thing you most want to do there, if you want to go there
at all?
> 
> What is the thing you hope they don't screw up, above all other things?

Carol responds:
Well, the Hog's Head isn't in Diagon Alley, but I'm sure you could get
a butterbeer at the Leaky Cauldron just as well, or maybe Hogsmeade
will be on the other side of the park.

If I go, which is slightly more likely than my going to the moon, I
would just hope not to see shrunken heads like the ones from the PoA
film all over the place. What I would really want and, of course,
would not get to see would be the "real" Severus Snape. I do hope that
the park is set in the first through fourth years, so that there's no
Umbridge in sight and no changes to Diagon Alley or Hogsmeade from the
way they appear in the early books, and I want Snape, not Slughorn, as
the Potions master if we see the teachers at all. I wonder who they'll
choose as DADA teacher, if they have to choose just one. 

The HP books, for me, are about Hogwarts, and that's what I would most
wish to see if I ever went there. I definitely don't care about any rides.

Carol, who hasn't read much about the theme park since it was first
announced and isn't exactly what will be included