The two girls were expected to complete only half a year, but it took 10 months to hand over a special set of models to a customer – a loyal fan of the Harry Potter series in Ho Chi Minh City. Miniature Burrow Farm with hundreds of details In the Harry Potter books, the Burrow is described as the large “twisted, crooked” home of the Weasley family. Not as grand as Hogwarts and not as boisterous as Diagon Alley, but the house is a place that means a lot to fans of the series as it has been described as “the only warm place in Harry Potter’s brutal life in past” – quoted translation. Outside the Hang Soc farm of Thuy Hang, Quynh Nhu. Share with Zing , Hong Thuy said her model of the Grave Farm has a 1:22 scale compared to the size described in the story. The outside structure of the house is made according to the movie, but the interior layout and interior are both created by Thuy and Quynh Nhu. The ideation process for the house took up to 3 months, including many revisions and discussions. “The overall model consists of 1 ground floor and 3 floors. The ground floor has a living room, a kitchen and a working area. The upper 3 floors include 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and an attic. In the Harry Potter movies and books, there is not much information about the layout of the rooms in the house, except for the attic. So I had to build the internal structure to match and be consistent with the outside architecture,” said Hong Thuy. Every little detail is meticulously and skillfully done by the two girls. Every detail in the house is meticulously calculated by Hong Thuy and Quynh Nhu. The couple included ruffled chairs, unwashed pans in pots and moss clinging to the tile floor. Even the scratches on the old wall and the dust on the roof are fully shown. Model of the Weasley family’s flying Ford Anglia car. Hong Thuy revealed that there are hundreds of large and small details in the house. Every detail is carefully handcrafted and the materials selected to match. “Depending on the details, we use materials such as wood, fomex, clay, zinc, paper, plastic, etc. Like the outside of the house, we use small pieces of wood to make the wall. The roof is made of bricks and tiles that I made myself,” said Hong Thuy. Every tiny item in the house is made by the two girls. After 10 months, the Grave Farm model was completed and the two girls breathed a sigh of relief. Hong Thuy said that because of perfectionism, there are many details in the finished house that are still added by the two girls to be more beautiful. The girl confided in Zing : “We do everything until we are satisfied. It can be said that the finished model is better than our initial expectations”. Each room is meticulously shaped. Currently, the model of the house of the Weasley family has been sent to the customer. Hong Thuy refused to disclose the selling price, only revealing that the amount was not small. “I would like to keep the price secret, which is quite high. I do not dare to expect many customers who are passionate enough to order a second The Burrow miniature. Because in Vietnam, this hobby is not popular. My customers have very positive feedback about this model,” said Hong Thuy. Work is only for the patient Besides the model of Hang Soc farm, Hong Thuy and Quynh Nhu have made many other miniature models. This work of the two girls comes from a passion for stop motion animated films. “Currently, this can be considered as my main job. In addition to this model, Quynh Nhu and I also make other products with many different proportions and themes,” said Hong Thuy. The beautiful house makes Harry Potter fans excited. Making a miniature model is not easy, making it beautiful is even more difficult. Someone said that to become a model maker perhaps requires ingenuity, but Hong Thuy denied. She said that the most important thing is to be patient. “Persistence is the most important quality when it comes to modeling. Many people are good with their hands, but they don’t have the perseverance to make a work from start to finish. The second quality is the ability to estimate. Even with imagination, everything can go wrong. So you have to estimate yourself to be able to make that detail accurately. The third quality is the aesthetic ability in arrangement and color selection. Not just making meticulous details, putting them side by side will be beautiful,” said Hong Thuy. Currently, Hong Thuy and Quynh Nhu’s Hang Soc farm model is still receiving many compliments from the online community. The two girls said they will continue to make miniature models, including scenes from Harry Potter stories.

In 527, at the time when the Eastern Roman Empire ruled Syria, soldiers discovered in an alcove there existed a lamp covered with a very sophisticated hood. According to history books, this lamp was lit in the year 57, which means that the lamp has been burning for nearly 500 years. Another lamp above the door of the temple of the sun god in Egypt is also recorded by Greek historians. The lamp does not use any fuel and still burns brightly for centuries, despite the impact of rain and wind. The oldest lamp was discovered in the 1400s, in the tomb of Pallas, son of the ancient Roman king Evandra. Thus, this lamp has so far burned brightly for more than… 2,600 years. To date, scientists have not been able to get an exact answer for that strange black chemical. In 1534, King Henry VIII’s army stormed the English synagogue, disbanding religious groups and excavating numerous graves. While digging through the grave of the Roman emperor Constantin’s father in Yorkshire, they discovered a burning lamp. This king’s father died in the year 300, which also means that the lamp was found to have a “life expectancy” of more than 1,200 years? These are just a few of the many millennial lights that do not go out. Records show that this mysterious phenomenon occurs all over the world, typically in countries and regions with ancient civilizations such as India, China, Egypt… The strange thing is that these mysterious lights are not preserved and preserved for the next life. Many researchers believe that, at that time, there were so many eternal lamps that they did not need to be preserved, so they did not have measures to preserve these “forever” finds. According to records, in fact, ancient people also thought of preserving these lamps, but strangely, shortly after being discovered, they were quickly destroyed by various causes. The scholar Saint Augustin (354-430) described an eternal lamp in the temple of Isis (Egypt). The most confusing thing is that it is located in the roofless part, despite the wind and rain. Similarly, the lamp in Edessa (Syria) burned for 500 years in extreme weather conditions. In 1300, the “special oil” theory was partly clarified, when the researcher Marcus Grecus wrote in his Liber Ignum (Book of Fire) that some eternal lamps used special fuels. It wasn’t oil but just a fine powder made from “glow worms”, but what kind of worms Marcus didn’t know and the mystery was forever buried. Marcus only said that “I looked at the wick, it was as long as my arm. A long time later, I came back and it was the same length, no one changed the wick or added more flour.” In 1401, in the grave of Pallas (son of King Evandra – Roman), people found an eternal lamp and said it had burned for 2,600 years. To put it out, according to the elders, there is only one way to break it all or pour out its “oil”. In 1450, a farmer in Padoue (Italy), while plowing his field found an earthenware vase, followed by two small metal vessels, one of gold and one of silver. In these two jars was a strange slime, half oil, half honey. Inside the terracotta vase was another terracotta vase containing an eternal lamp that was still burning. Buried underground (since when) and burned in such low oxygen conditions, it is a mystery. In 1610, researcher Ludovicius Vives claimed to have seen an eternal lamp (burning for 1,500 years) and was smashed by potters. The historian Cambden (England) in 1586 also mentioned an eternal lamp at the grave of Constantius Chlorus, father of Constantine the Great. Chlorus died in 306 in England and since then, an eternal lamp has been placed in his grave. In Spain, there was also an eternal lamp found at Cordone in 1846. Priest Evariste – Regis Huc (1813-1860) was an avid traveler in Asia and found such an immortal lamp in Tibet in 1853. The above findings prove that these mysterious lamps are not the product of Greece, Egypt or Rome alone. Chemist Brand (Hambourg – Germany) in 1669 determined that these eternal lamps burn for so long because of phosphorus. Others believe that they burn for a long time because they do not need air, on the contrary, if exposed to air they will extinguish. If this opinion is true, could the ancients know the vacuum technique? Besides, fire burns without oxygen is a very difficult thing to understand. These debates force people to turn to another mystery: the Egyptian lighting technique. On the streets of ancient Egypt, people used oil lamps and torches. Fuels are residues that are rich in fats and oils. But in the crypts dug up to 100 meters into the mountains, what light did the slaves and sculptors work with? In these catacombs, there was no trace of any lamps or torches. So did the Egyptians use mirrors to reflect sunlight? But the “mirrors” of that time were only silver, and could only reflect 40% of the light, meaning that at a depth of a few tens of meters, darkness would completely cover again. A shocking discovery has shocked the archaeological world: at the temple of Hator in Denderah, built more than 4,200 years ago, there are drawings showing that the Egyptians “used strange instruments that looked like light bulbs. electricity today!”. Is this the mysterious light technique? Scientist Erich Von Daniken (Germany) is trying to recreate these giant light bulbs in the lab, but has not found the core of the problem. Egyptologists also conceded defeat, because apparently there was no electricity at that time. With such records of “forever-on” lamps being discovered around the world, it may be confirmed that these mysterious lamps do indeed exist. However, the manufacture and use of them is still a mystery to mankind and the scientific world.