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Guests lounged under a ceiling that featured alternating projections of clouds dotting blue skies and stormy weather.

Antique silver candelabras topped 19th-century mahogany tables in the interior space, which featured decorative gargoyles, stained-glass windows, columns, and moving portraits.

A real green flame inspired by the film's "floo network" periodically burst from within the center of a bar.

A large orb decorated with a projection of the prophecy Harry sees in the film hung in front of smaller orbs and above an elaborately decorated dessert buffet.

Fog permeated the outdoor entrance to the Jim Henson Company Lot.

Green lighting swathed the oaks, pines, and sycamore trees that helped re-create the Forbidden Forest.

See-through tabletops sat on potted shrubs in keeping with the outdoor area's Forbidden Forest theme.

Adults and kids tested out Wii's new Harry Potter game, and also played more traditional games like skee-ball.

Guests found a re-creation of the Hogwart's Express 9¾ platform and a projection of its train at the end of a pathway in the outdoor area.

Guests passed under an oversize black granite fireplace, proceeded through a dark tunnel, and then walked through a green-flamed fog screen to enter the interior space.