It took greater than a wave of a wand, however Pakistani college scholars remodeled their 150-year-old campus into Hogwarts this week as they kicked off a pageant celebrating the fictitious younger wizard Harry Potter. With its huge halls and hovering archways, Executive Faculty College within the japanese megacity of Lahore has lengthy reminded scholars of the mystical faculty created by means of British creator JK Rowling, a number of scholars advised AFP.

“I will’t imagine I’m in Hogwarts, whilst being in Lahore of all puts,” mentioned an excited Raziah Alam, collaborating within the pageant. “This has been one of these a laugh revel in.” Wearing costumes from the “Potterverse” together with wands and pointed witch and wizard hats, scholars welcomed guests to their model of the Hogwarts “Nice Corridor”, embellished with broomsticks, bats, or even a space to brew potions.

The theme tune from the Harry Potter motion pictures performed within the background as scholars attempted out spells, took footage dressed in the well-known “Sorting Hat”, and dressed up in Hogwarts uniforms.

“All these kids grew up on the time when JK Rowling’s paintings used to be being offered within the novels after which afterward within the motion pictures,” Dr Asghar Zaidi, the college’s vice chancellor and a “Potterhead” himself advised AFP. He added that once scholars come to the campus “they see the structure, it reminds them of Hogwarts.”