Gallery: Potter Festival more muggled than magical due to crowds
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While the toilet paper looked magical, the wait for the bathroom was anything but.
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A cobbled street, rain and umbrellas made for slow going on Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill during the Potter festival.
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Rob Watt of Pennsbury dressed up his dog with two extra heads for the festival.
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Characters were scattered along the avenue, which stopped the crowd for pictures. Some unhappy muggles complained they could not locate all of the characters or reach some that were popular.
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The entire length of the festival along Gemantown Avenue in Chetnut Hill was clotted with people, so much so that some blocks required shuffling, not walking, to move along.
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Selfies were the order of the day at the Harry Potter Festival in Chestnut Hill.
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Shayna Delrio and her two small children, seven and three years old, took refuge in Weaver's Way, a food co-op because the street was so packed. "I would really like to learn some spells," she said of the crush of people and no crowd control.
