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Knockturn Alley

    Welcome to Knockturn Alley! Listed below are excerpts from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that include information on and descriptions of Knockturn Alley and the shop Harry arrives in by mistake; Borgin and Burkes.

-"All he could tell was that he was standing in the stone fireplace of what looked like a large, dimly lit wizard's shop--but nothing in here was ever likely to be on a Hogwarts school list.
    A glass case nearby held a withered hand on a cushion, a blood-stained pack of cards, and a staring glass eye. Evil-looking masks stared down from the walls, an assortment of humans bones lay upon the counter, and rusty, spiked instruments hung from the ceiling. Even worse, the dark, narrow street Harry could see through the dusty shop window was definitely not Diagon Alley."

-"Muttering darkly, Mr. Borgin disappeared into a back room. Harry waited for a minute in case he came back, then, quietly as he could, slipped out of the cabinet, past the glass cases, and out the shop door."

-"He had emerged into a dingy alleyway that seemed to be made up entirely of shops devoted to the Dark Arts. The on he'd just left, Borgin and Burkes, looked like the largest, but opposite was a nasty window display of shrunken heads and, two doors down a large cage was alive with gigantic black spiders."

-"An old wooden street sign hanging over a shop selling poisonous candles told him he was in Knockturn Alley."