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The Weasley Clock Project, Step 2: Selecting a Clock

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Magic IRL Weasley Clock Project Clocks
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Ravenclaw, Engineer, Builder, Programmer
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What Type of Clock?
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The Weasley’s clock was first described in Book 2, Chapter 3: The Burrow. It was said to have “nine golden hands, one for every member of the household. In place of hours on the clock’s face were a series of possible locations, including “home,” “school”, “work”, “travelling”, “lost”, “hospital”, “prison”, and “mortal peril”.” In Book 4 it is described as a grandfather clock but later in Book 6 it is described as small enought for Molly to be able to carry it around the house and Harry noted that it used to hang on the wall in the family’s living room. So either Molly charmed it to be reduced in size or it was never a full-sized grandfather clock.

Either way, you can really pick any clock you like. We chose to make the clock our own and to not try to make it accurate to what was in the movies and only loosely base it off of the books.

Selecting the Clock
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You can really select any clock you want as long as it is big enough for the electronics you chose. You could even build your own clock cabinet if you have the skill to. However, I had a fake grandfather clock I bought at a yard sale several years earlier. I say “fake” because it did not have the gears, chimes, weights, etc. that a real, traditional grandfather clock has. It had a basic quartz clock mechanisms, a electronic chime, and electromagnet motor to keep the pendulum swinging. The weights and weight chains were just attached to the clock cabinet with eye hooks.

What also helped in pushing me to do this project was that the clock had stopped working a few months earlier. I could have just replaced the clock mechanism but I always knew I wanted to do this.

Weasley Clock Project - This article is part of a series.
Part 3: This Article