Where is 21 Grimmauld Place?

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> 
> > As I think about it, it may be possible that the flight took so 
> > long because Moody flew them around the far East End to avoid the 
> > city, then brought them into the Kings Cross area on a more North 
> > East to South West route. That is, coming into the Kings Cross 
> > neighborhood, or near by neighborhood, from the North East.

> 
> Am I being thick here?  I don't understand why flight time comes 
> into it.  They were flying from Little Whinging, in Surrey, which is 
> much further away.
> 
> David

bboy_mn:

Straight in to London via broom assuming a 60mph flight speed, is
about a 15 to 30 minute flight, depending on the actual location from
Little Whinging (which doesn't exist).

I get the impression of a much longer, probably over an hour, flight.

---OoP Am HB pg 37---
(Narration of Harry's thoughts)
He wondered how long they ad been flying; it felt like an hour at least.
---end quote---

I would guess that they flew another 10 to 20 minutes more after Harry
had the above quoted thought. Estimated an hour and 20 minutes, that's
a lot of flying time to travel 20 to 30 miles. 

So, I am trying to account for that time. True Moody's detours added
some time, but I doubt that it tripled the amount of flying time. 

Kings Cross station is north of the central City of London near
Regent's Park. So I speculate that they did not fly directly over the
heart of London. Instead the skirted the center of the city by flying
farther east and approached King's Cross area from the north east.

I'm not saying it's true, I'm just speculating on the possibilities.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn