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Hi --
<p>John -- great comments on the Burrow issue. My personal opinion
is that maybe you should post an actual message to the group with this
info, so that there can be a message citation in the Burrow section.
But, maybe others won't think that's necessary.
<p>What do we think? Can we as a group just edit the FAQs of others
based on our own substantive knowledge & not really worry about creating
a message to the group with that info? Either way is fine by me ....
just a thought (since we have message #s for support for info). Or,
at least all my info is supported by footnotes with message #s or page
references (or interviews, articles, etc.).
<p>I was particularly sensitive to being sure everything was documented
in my Romance & Hermione FAQs -- for .... ahem .... obvious reasons
of bias. :--)
<p>Penny
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>Hi all,</tt>
<p><tt>I love the new FAQ page layout! One thing I noticed though, in the
Geography</tt>
<br><tt>FAQ:</tt>
<p><tt>Where is The Burrow?</tt>
<p><tt>Near Stoatshead Hill and the village of Ottery St Catchpole.</tt>
<br><tt>There is some confusion as to where the Weasley family lives.</tt>
<br><tt>Various UK-based members placed them in Devon as there is a</tt>
<br><tt>village called Ottery Saint Mary, located not far to the east from</tt>
<br><tt>Exeter. The village of Chudleigh (similar to Chudley, home
of</tt>
<br><tt>the Chudley Cannons Quidditch Team) is a similar distance to</tt>
<br><tt>the west of Exeter. However, in GoF, they used Muggle taxis to</tt>
<br><tt>get to Kings Cross Station in London. This suggests that
the</tt>
<br><tt>Burrow must be reasonably close to London as it would</tt>
<br><tt>otherwise have cost a fortune to transport the group to the</tt>
<br><tt>Hogwarts Express.</tt>
<p><tt>==</tt>
<p><tt>Actually, it's not that expensive, having travelled from Devon to
London</tt>
<br><tt>myself to go to school. The train would be 15-20 pounds for each
child under</tt>
<br><tt>16 and 30-40 for everyone over 16 (Arthur, Molly, Percy). A prebooked
taxi</tt>
<br><tt>(from past experience) is about 70 pounds to go into London. With
four to a</tt>
<br><tt>taxi, therefore, it's not a bad bargain. Plus, we assume, the Ministry</tt>
<br><tt>"encouraged" the Weasleys to use private transport for safety reasons.</tt>
<p><tt>Anyway, we used to share taxis up to London to go home for the holidays
all</tt>
<br><tt>the time.</tt>
<p><tt>Just a thought :)</tt>
<p><tt>--John</tt>
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<br><tt>John Walton john@walton.to</tt>
<p><tt>My parents retired to Florida and all I got was this lousy</tt>
<br><tt>President.</tt>
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