Una vida menos estrecha, el genio de Harry Potter y el Castillo de Edimburgo

I'm so pleased you took a chance on me and glad a cheery memory endured. Thank you for this kind gift Greg 💞 May your robes seldom rumple & your cauldron never crack 😭 x Sam 🧙‍♂️

Cheers Kevin. The worry with preteens is my tours are such a long time listening they'll glaze over. Glad that wasn't the case. There are so many things to do in Edinburgh and the cost of accommodation is so much, it really pleases me when my tour is considered worthy. Thanks, Kevin and Alison and Lily and coven. I'd wish you McGonagall's fist of iron & Hagrid's glowing heart 💖 But you already have it. So I'll wish you his larder instead. Pumpkins the size of Lily! x Sam

Yes, it's a really really really quick tour for kids, 'Potter in a heartbeat', so they need to be Potter-reading literati, or they won't be aware, after all that money, that they went on one 🤦 In fact when I arrive to greet a tour, if I see a child without a monocle I'm like... 'this doesn't feel good' 🧐 But I figure it's like playing a Quidditch International in the January snow, having forgotten your Googles; it's going to be hard for them, perilous most likely, but memorable for the pain of it all 😣 Thanks for choosing me Michelle & for the kind review & enduring my Firebolt gabble 🙌 May your broomstick slice headwinds like a wand through pixie butter 😌 x Sam

Thanks Rob! Yes, I want pilgrims to have Rowling's view of the world. I want them to understand what excites, moves & drives her today, decades after her flight from the cupboard. And I have to point out some features along the way or I'd be remiss 🤷 I sent your review to my Mum 🦉 it's been a pandemic since I've been graced by one so articulate; Mum quizzed me on you. Thanks so much Rob. May your self-writing Quill never flag & your Mandrakes forever flourish 🫚 » ✨ » 🪴

Merlin be saved! Thank you Naresar, that means a lot, my marathon-long private tours do not run every day. They're sooo long the MOM should probably issue an Order of Merlin third class to anyone who completes them. I'll petition them, but they'll probably just say that's MACUSA's business 😪 It perhaps helped me that Rowling's family could key into your profession a little. A happy thing when that happens. Thanks for the kind review, doesn't happen every day. Much appreciated 💞 May your hat be forever crooked & your broomstick fly true 😄 x Sam

Thanks Anton! So happy you chose me 🙌 It most definitely helped that you were keenly interested, creates the disposition to best enjoy a long, detailed tour. Also helps you're open-hearted, the world isn't short of Dursleys and when you say 'individual' veins begin to throb! May your hair crackle with 1000 brilliant thoughts⚡️, and your adventures fizz like Lockharts. 😘 Sam ϟ

Cheers, I'm so pleased. The length of that tour, all my tours really, is demanding for pre-teens, basically a near non-stop verbal novella in 5½ hours, so I'm gladdened it's remembered happily. You were good sports too. I wish you McGonagall's fists of iron and Hagrid's glowing heart. And immune system... pretty indestructible I'd say. x Sam

Ah thanks Rachel, that's really sweet of you. Yes it's been a privellege to have customers like you, trying to give their charge the best experience. I've had some Dutch ones too, a Hermione last weekend. Occassionally I get the parents who try and lean into their kids interest before they've finished the books, and my heart grieves, the tour has so many spoilers and I'm too dunder-headed to catch them all, or many, or any. Arrg. So far as 'beyond Potter' activities go, visiting Edinburgh should be the capstone experience, so I stick with the non-commercial length, in fact make it longer & ever more non-commerical, passionate Potterheads are the folk it's most fun to serve. Yes Rowling has written a few inspirational things and done more, she's been called on to be a role model and rises to it often, in so many different fields. So I try to include that. Most likely having paid more tax than any other individual in British history she's also keeping our poor abused politicians out off the doghouse (their doghouses are probably built from iPads mind). Thanks for writing such a heartening review Rachel. If I ever do leaflets again, I'll include your review; I'm gratified you chose me, you are a blessing. May your Patronus never dim and your potions always shimmer X Sam.

Thankyou Smuty. I'm so pleased, it always irked me that Harry Potter was classified kids books, Rowling herself said she never wrote down to them you just can't have se-x near unicorns because that would be tacky. So I wrote a more adult tour, addressing some of the weightier topics. I'm gladdened that it keeps kids engaged. Rowling said the books helped kids "try on other people's ideas... send their minds where their bodies are not yet mature enough to go." I'll pass your compliment along to the hat. Put it on the radiator so it can enjoy a good toast. It'll be overjoyed. Over summer it almost put one 5 year old in tears (wrong house apparently). The hat got packed away to the bottom of my freezer. That'll teach it for trying to build resilience. Lousy hat. Thanks for a wonderfully enthused review, x Sam

Oh you're welcome, I'm so pleased it paid off. I think unusual experiences make great gifts, do something different and add a bit of texture to your memories so it doesn't all fly by. Your sister doesn't have the Bellatrix of siblings. May your flick and swish always give you bliss x Sam.