For decorations in the house, we decided to give each room a theme. The dining room was the Great Hall, complete with house crests (made by my very talented sister). And for the night sky, we hung clear twinkle lights on the ceiling and covered with black tule.
The front porch was platform 9 3/4. Complete with brick wall, steamer trunk and train sounds. I had some scrap MDF from another project so I painted the Hogwarts Express sign. My advice for getting nicely painted letters is to print them out the size you need first, then use them as a stencil for a painting guide. We put a cd player in the steam trunk that played various train sounds. There are lots of sites online that have free sound bites to use.
Our dementor hung out in the sorting hat room. The windows were frosted (of course) and the china hutch held some 'props' like a time turner keychain, a wand, a pygmy puff, marauders map and other things we had collected.
The main room, where the party games took place, was our common room. We put down a few rugs, brought in big chairs and couches and made the room cozy.
We turned the bathroom into Aragog's cave. Complete with Aragog himself, watching you from above. A trail of spiders ran around the room and a quote from Aragog was written on the mirror.
Lastly, we made up the goody bags. Designed to look like brooms! It just takes 2 brown paper bags, one cut up on the outside and a whole one on the inside with all the goodies. Instead of a wooden stick for the handle, we dipped pretzel rods in chocolate ('chocolate pretzel wands') and had them stick out of the bags. We also included Bertie Botts Beans (just plain Jelly Belly's), chocolate frogs (made with a chocolate mold) and a little rat to take home.
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