One doting father created a replica of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter inside his daughter Ella’s wardrobe. In an interview with <a href="https://www.boredpanda.com/dad-makes-secret-harry-potter-street/?utm_source=mirror&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic">Bored Panda</a>, Dylan revealed that it took several months before he worked out exactly how to go about the project. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CGmd3z0ncqK/]] "I used mainly wood and MDF, but also I found wallpaper, for example, with books printed on it which really helped make it look good but take less time." The building process took Dylan from August 24 to the end of September (Ella's birthday) to complete. On the final night, he told the outlet that he was up until 2:00AM to finish it all. This woman sold a first edition of Harry Potter for £33,000 ($43,000): [[jwplayerwidget||https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/xxPwj0Io-sKUnNGKf.mp4||xxPwj0Io]] "I wanted to do something special for Ella after homeschooling while I was working too and staying in so much," Dylan told Bored Panda. "Inspiration happened one lunchtime standing in the room wondering what to do with it and it occurred to me that even though it was not much use as a room, it felt like a mini street as we live in an old Victorian terrace house," Dylan added. Dylan purchased a number of items online to place in the shop windows, including tiny books and feather quills. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CGdRa2GHgQO/]] "The street surface is Lino which is soft and warm to walk on. I also live in a street of many kind people, so I was given old photo frames which I used for shop windows," he added. "It was a bit of a marathon doing it on my own, but music helped me through," Dylan shared, adding that he put on some tunes from Oasis, Coldplay, The Beatles, and Pearl Jam while he worked. He even had a listen to the Harry Potter theme during the building process. Dylan left Ella to find her new Diagon Alley replica all on her own during a game of hide and seek when she got home from school. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CGc6_jRH7et/]] "After a few goes, she decided to hide in the wardrobe which had a curtain behind it," he recalled. "She didn’t find it straight away, but she also knew I had made something for her so her first words were, ‘I can see something in here,’ then silence as she walked in and then, ‘Can we keep this here forever?’" Together, the father and daughter explored all the shops in the mini-Harry Potter alley and she opened the presents he had placed in each one. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CGf1fqsHqcq/]] "We played for the rest of the weekend, for example, making ice cream in the ice cream shop with a machine I found," Dylan said. "I also dressed up as Hagrid which was hilarious for us both as my accent was terrible, but we went back through the wardrobe to the muggle world as Ella and Hagrid and took cushions from her living room for her reading nook above her bookshop on Diagon Alley."

Dad builds daughter who loves 'Harry Potter' her own Diagon Alley through hidden wardrobe

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