Hogwarts by any other name?

So the new Barrett complex here is brand new with brand new dorms, a brand new dining hall, brand new classrooms, etc. One of the brand new things is a seating area in our dining hall that's set aside. It's a small hall right next to the area where you get food. Apparently people have been referring to it as the Hogwarts hall, the Harry Potter hall and things like that.

This would make a lot more sense if it resembled the dining hall of Hogwarts in any way. The only comparisons I would draw are that both have a high ceiling and a doorway on one end of the room. That's it.

Maybe it's the wooden walls or just the fact that it's a semi-enclosed dining area, but somehow people seem to be reminded of Hogwarts by it. I just don't see it all. Hopefully I'll be able to get a picture on here eventually. But there really isn't any resemblance. The tables are too small and not even facing the right way and there are too many of them. There's no real front, certainly no long table where teachers or whoever would sit.

Perhaps I'm spoiled because I had dinner once at a dining hall at Baylor, one that actually did resemble the Hogwarts dining hall greatly. It was styled after the halls of some east coast universities. It had four long tables running one way and one long one on a slightly elevated stage perpendicular to the other four which is where the professors and staff sat when I ate there.

It's interesting how vulnerable you are to something that's fake if you haven't seen the real thing, or even a close approximation. I was eating a cheesecake last night and wondered what it would be like if I thought it was chocolate. Don't get me wrong, it would still taste good just as our dining hall does look very nice, but it's nothing like what actual chocolate tastes like. And as someone who's eaten real chocolate and seen dining halls comparable to Hogwarts, I can assure you that there really isn't anything like the real deal.