Harry Potter Moves To Florida

The Daily Mail is reporting the JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has given her blessing for the Universal theme park in Orlando to open a Harry Potter themed area in their amusement park. (It isn't exactly a theme park in itself as the story reports, merely a section of the Islands of Adventure park.)

Harry Potter author J K Rowling has given the go-ahead for a theme park dedicated to the schoolboy wizard.

The park, expected to open in Orlando in 2009, will feature scenes from the best-selling books, including Hogwarts school and the village of Hogsmeade.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will offer fans a "one of a kind" opportunity to experience the environment of their favourite character, bosses behind the project said.

The park is a joint venture between Warner Bros Entertainment – producers of the Harry Potter films – and Universal Orlando Resort.

Oh goody. Now it will be even more crowded there. If that's possible, of course. The last time we went to Orlando, we had passes for Universal that gave us five consecutive days of admission there. I think we used three of those days – the crowds wore even the kids down so they didn't want to go back after that.