Huge demand crashes Harry Potter website

Thursday 13 October 2011 19:00 EDT

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A website offering tours of the studios where the Harry Potter films were made crashed on its launch day from the numbers of people trying to book.

The Making Of Harry Potter attraction in Leavesden, near Watford, will be one of the largest studio tours in Europe when it opens next spring. Tours will feature the Hogwarts Great Hall, the Gryffindor Common Room and Dumbledore's office, plus costumes, props and effects.

Fans vented their frustration on Twitter, with some saying it took two hours to buy tickets.

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