The birth and death of the Harry Potter graveyard obsession.

The graveyard became an instant favourite location for G, B and L.  The first spontaneous trip was enough to solidify how important the graveyard would be to this friendship, even if one member of the trio wasn't convinced.  That member of the group was later convinced when in a sudden strange turn of events, which some would call fate, an organised New Years Eve event led them back there.  However in the third and final visit to the graveyard it was clear that nothing lasts forever and the graveyard was no longer a place for fun friends to hang out.  Now lets revisit the whole story from start to finish in more detail!


Monday October 27th 2014

Queen G, B and L were sitting in the hall of their wonderful penthouse on the Upper East Side of Edinburgh.  The girls were contemplating what fun activity they were going to take part in that evening when G was struck with a brilliant idea.  You see G's best Kiwi friend had recently been visiting and she had gone to the graveyard to see Tom Riddles grave because, fun fact, Harry Potter was written in a cafe beside the graveyard and J.K Rowling had taken names off of some of the graves and put them in her book.  One of those names was Tom Riddle and so you can actually go to visit Lord Voldemort's grave while you are in Edinburgh, isn't Scotland fun?  Anyways, it was decided that the girls would indeed go to see Tom however once they arrive at the graveyard they somehow ended up right in the middle of a ghost tour.  What does one do when one finds themself in the middle of a ghost tour that they did not plan to take part in nor did they pay for?  They keep their heads low and enjoy this brand new unexpected adventure!  Ultimately they never found Tom's grave that night but they left with a brand new appreciation for the graveyard and with high hopes that one day they would return.

Tom Riddle's Grave.

Wednesday December 31st 2014/Thursday January 1st 2015

Queen G and L were spending New Years together and it was all very exciting!  They had written a contract which stated a list of rules that the two girls must follow throughout the night and they had plans to attend a pub crawl.  One of the rules was that the girls would not visit the graveyard that night because as it would turn out L wasn't such a big fan of the graveyard after all.  However fate intervened and the tour guides led our group into the graveyard just before midnight because the graveyard had a wonderful view of the castle and the fireworks.  This was surely a sign that the graveyard, now dubbed the raveyard, was in fact their destiny.  The girls had an all round great night, fun for the whole family! AND they even got to see Tom's grave!  I guess it's only fair to say theu spend New Years with Lord Voldy!

G and L in the raveyard on New Years Eve

Saturday February 14th, the final visit

Queen G and B ended up spending Valentines day with each other, lets call it Galentines day!  L had returned to the neighboring city for a fun family weekend and the other girls actually didn't cope so well with her absence, it cut them deep, it cut them real deep Shrek!  What do 2 single girls do on Galentines day?  They go to the raveyard!  However, this time something was different.  Upon entering the raveyard the girls noticed a clocked figure walking just ahead of them.  To this day G is still certain it was a death eater!  There is no other logical explanation!  The girls beat on, boats against the current determined not to have their special placed ruined by an evil murderous wizard!  The girls ended up being separated and in her panic G phoned L, the tears were near for she was positive she was about to die.  Queen G estimated her pulse to be roughly 200 beats per minute and she was afraid that Voldy was going to rise out his grave and everything would go down in flames, it leave her breathless or with a nasty (scar on her forehead).  When the girls caught up with one another, they left the graveyard and G knew things would never be the same again, this was no longer their fun place, it was a place she had looked death in the eyes!