Comments on the Geography FAQ :)

[John Walton]

Hi all,

I love the new FAQ page layout! One thing I noticed though, in the Geography
FAQ:

Where is The Burrow?

Near Stoatshead Hill and the village of Ottery St Catchpole. 
There is some confusion as to where the Weasley family lives. 
Various UK-based members placed them in Devon as there is a 
village called Ottery Saint Mary, located not far to the east from 
Exeter.  The village of Chudleigh (similar to Chudley, home of 
the Chudley Cannons Quidditch Team) is a similar distance to 
the west of Exeter. However, in GoF, they used Muggle taxis to 
get to King¹s Cross Station in London. This suggests that the 
Burrow must be reasonably close to London as it would 
otherwise have cost a fortune to transport the group to the 
Hogwarts Express. 

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Actually, it's not that expensive, having travelled from Devon to London
myself to go to school. The train would be 15-20 pounds for each child under
16 and 30-40 for everyone over 16 (Arthur, Molly, Percy). A prebooked taxi
(from past experience) is about 70 pounds to go into London. With four to a
taxi, therefore, it's not a bad bargain. Plus, we assume, the Ministry
"encouraged" the Weasleys to use private transport for safety reasons.

Anyway, we used to share taxis up to London to go home for the holidays all
the time.

Just a thought :)

--John
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John Walton     john at walton.to

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