Blackpool pier was a pier in Blackpool, Lancashire, on the northwestern coast of England on the Irish Sea.
History[]
When Neville Longbottom was a young child in the 1980s, his great-uncle, Algie, shoved him off the end of this pier in an attempt to make him show evidence of having magical abilities, which nearly caused him to drown.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- There are in fact three piers in Blackpool: North Pier, Central Pier, and South Pier. The novel does not specify which of them Neville was pushed off.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 7 (The Sorting Hat)