Walk between the lines
WANDS a-waving, an excited queue snakes across King’s Cross station, clamouring for a chance to push a trunk-laden trolley through the brick wall of Platform 9¾. The din is such that Harry Potter wouldn’t have had any problem finding the train to Hogwarts. With a pen stroke, J. K. Rowling turned King’s Cross—the station she was travelling to when she first had the idea for the wizarding series—into the latest in the crown of literary jewels that stud this slice of London.
‘They revolutionised Britain’s culture, but left the door open to criticism’
The title once belonged to the British Library, which, with more than 25 million books, is an ideal bridge between the Potter universe and the Victorian and Edwardian greats that made their home between King’s Cross and
