Yea.. I asked my friend about that castle tours just after I posted that, since she's a total Potter nerd, I knew she would know haha.. I guess I never noticed we offered it mostly due to the fact that I ONLY used the single rider line for FJ, resulting in never seeing any of the castle outside of the talking Portrait room... From what she told me, the castle tour isn't a free-for-all walk right in thing, you actually had to ask, then they escort you through it. However, apparently she has not seen them do the tours lately.
Yea, detailed areas in the parks are great... but I'm looking forward to being able to have one thing again.... Butterbeer lol. I expect us to have the "warm butterbeer" option from day one, which will be nice during those cool summer nights -_- & in the fall/winter.. Too bad we won't see Butterbeer ice cream though.