Map of Hogwarts drawn by JKR

[earendil_fr]

> Carolyn:
> I decided that the label on the far right probably did say 'vegetable 
> patch', but I just can't make out the writing in the box on the right 
> between the veg patch and the castle.

Earendil:
I think it's close to what you said in your previous post. I
personnally think it's written 'greenhouses'. The greenhouses have to
be outside the castle, haven't they?


> Earendil:
> > As for the label on the left of the castle, I can't tell for the 
> first words, but it looks like it ends with 'lake' (plus something 
> between () ), maybe even 'down the lake'.
> 
> Carolyn:
> I thought it might say 'lawn slopes down to lake' (??)

Earendil:
Even if we don't get all the words right, I'm sure this is the general
idea :-)


> > Carolyn originally:
> > > - the label on the road at the bottom of the map.
> 
> > Earendil now:
> > Hm, what road at the bottom of the map? Maybe we're looking at
> > different captures of the map, the one I'm looking at
> > (http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/images/2004/11/dvdmap1.jpg) is 
> cut
> > above what I guess is the road from the train station to Hogwarts
> > (labelled 'road for carriages' just below Hogsmeade)
> > 
> Carolyn again:
> Ah, if you go back to TLC, you will see there are actually two maps 
> to download. One is larger than the other and includes a long road 
> down at the bottom, round the bottom of the lake. However, it is much 
> poorer focus.

Earendil:
I know, I realised the other picture was larger right after I posted
the message. Can't tell what's written at the bottom of the map
either, and judging from the comments on that news, many other people
can't either.

Carolyn:
> I was really hoping to try and make out where the rumoured graveyard 
> might be, but these maps give no clue, alas.

Earendil:
I don't think JKR would place something on the map that hasn't been
mentioned in the books yet, even if it *is* there. Would she have
mentioned the whomping willow back if she had had to draw such a map
for us after book one? I don't think she would have - she hates to
spoil her readers, doesn't she?
All we can tell from this map is that, well, there *is* room for a
graveyard on Hogwarts' grounds...

Earendil.