Dursley home (was Re: Dobby & being picky)

[alhewison]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "alhewison" <Ali at z...> wrote:
>> When I first saw the Dursleys' living room (parlor? sitting room?) 
in the film, I 
> nearly screamed -- their wallpaper is the EXACT same as the 
wallpaper that 
> came with my house, which I bought from a rather Dursley-ish family!
> 
> I've done a 3-week home exchange in London, but that's the extent 
of my insight  into British homes -- what was it about the Dursley 
place that didn't seem right  to you?  Was it something related to 
the books, or to the general Dursley-class  lifestyle?

More specifically I thought it was much too small. It seemed that 
they only really had one room downstairs - a kitchen which opened 
onto a living room. In the books they have a kitchen (which is big 
enough to have a kitchen table), plus a separate dining room and a 
living room. These are all mentioned in CoS, so I'm wondering how 
they're going to do the Dobby scenes with Harry in the kitchen, as if 
they use the room lay out they had for PS/SS the Dursleys would see 
Harry and Dobby run into the kitchen. Given the Dursleys pretensions, 
I though that they would have a bigger house.

(I alsways imagined a 1930's style house rather than a modern one as 
did many of my friends, but this a perception rather than canon - it 
was just strange that so many of us shared it).

Ali