Now You Can Stay In Harry Potter¡¯s Childhood Home & Also Share Your Room With Real Life Ghosts!
As kids, we have all wanted to live a life like Harry Potter, right? We all wanted to go to Hogwarts, have all those magical items and wanted to cast spell on cats and many more people.
If that was your childhood fantasy too, Potter fans listen up! Because now you can actually go and live in Harry Potter¡¯s real-life childhood home for ?110 (Rs 10,073.72) per night.
You remember the house we are talking about, right? You saw the De Vere House in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part One. Remember Lord Voldemort stops by the Godric's Hollow residence to murder Harry Potter's parents? That¡¯s when he gives him his trademark lightning bolt scar.
The property is 600-years-old, and it has its own tales of witchcraft and ghosts. No, we are not kidding. It is for real.
Where is the house? The house is located in Lavenham, England. The house is owned by Jane and Tony Ranzetta, who have lived there for over 20 years. And now, they have turned it into a guesthouse.
But if you want to spend a night there, you might have to share it with ghosts.
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Tony shared how the house made it to Harry Potter. ¡°JK Rowling was well acquainted with the village and we know her friend stayed here while she was in the process of writing the books, it was surely in her mind when she created Godric¡¯s Hollow.
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¡°The house is often referred to as ¡®The Harry Potter House¡¯ by locals and in the media, and a huge picture of our front door can be seen at the Warner Bros¡¯ exhibition on the making of Harry Potter.
And Tony said one of the ghosts living there was the inspiration for Nearly Headless Nick.
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¡°In fact, one of the property¡¯s resident ghosts, Sir Francis De Vere, is inspiration for the character of Nearly Headless Nick ¨C Gryffindor¡¯s house ghost who was subject to a botched execution while he was alive - and John Cleese¡¯s outfit in the films is remarkably similar to the portrait of Francis¡¯ costume in his portrait."
¡°The whole story is quite peculiar really. Just after we first moved into the house, Jane saw a uniquely dressed man walk through the kitchen wall and into the garden beyond. She was obviously taken aback but understands that a house with this much history must surely hold echoes of the past. It was at a later date when we were in the National Portrait Gallery in Monacute House when she suddenly gasped and said, ¡®that¡¯s the ghost I saw!¡¯, Tony added.
¡°After finding a portrait guide, we found out it was, of course, Sir Francis. It was the very first time that portrait had been on public display so she couldn¡¯t have seen it before then. We have a copy of that painting downstairs now ¨C I¡¯m sure he likes it.¡±
There¡¯s another ghoulish guest called Becky, who wants to be treated like a child.
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¡°Becky is our poltergeist, she moves things around and really doesn¡¯t like it when priests or nuns come to stay.
¡°She¡¯s taken wedding rings and other keepsakes before now ¨C but she¡¯ll usually return them if we ask her nicely. She has to be treated like a child. We¡¯re quite lucky, usually poltergeist are malign but Becky doesn¡¯t seem to be.
¡°Usually somebody becomes a poltergeist if they¡¯ve been subject of a witch¡¯s curse or similar, so we think Becky was probably thrust upon a former homeowner and now just hangs around, shutting doors and turning the TV and radio on and off, just being mischievous rather than dangerous.¡±
How is it to be always surrounded by ghosts? Here¡¯s what Tony was quoted as saying by?The Sun.
¡°It is usually Jane who sees them. She¡¯ll tell me all about it last thing at night, just before we go to bed. I think she¡¯s just got used to them and works around them, like we do with our visitors and guests. They¡¯re harmless. It¡¯s a wonderful house which we love people to see. It¡¯s especially good at parties. We think the house likes to entertain.¡±
Would you want to stay in the house?
