Everybody needs a Hogsmeade.. someplace you can visit outside of your home or school that you can go to escape. Of course if you are really lucky you can actaully visit something very close to the Hogsmeade in the books when the Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando, Florida opens sometime late 2009 or early 2010. Here is the link to their website to check that out! universalorlando.com

Check out the image gallery to see what their version of Hogsmead and it’s shops will look like.

In the meantime…find places around your town/city that have the feeling of a Hogsmeade shop. Maybe there are bulidings rumored to be haunted like the shrieking shack? Here in Bismarck the State Library is said to be haunted.