Dursley Mail

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Dursley Mail
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6438] Dursley Mail
Date: 8/9/00 11:06 pm  (ET)

> So how did the Dursleys know how to get mail to Harry?

I don't think anyone but JKR knows the answer to that question yet. I
can guess that Dumbledore saw to it that they knew the Muggle mailing
address for The Leaky Cauldron, and the people at The Leaky Cauldron
were glad to lend their owl for the sake of H*a*r*r*y P*o*t*t*e*r.

I wonder if The Leaky Cauldron is visible to the Muggle postman, or does
he see only a mailbox on the side of the Virgin Megastore?

Which reminds me of something I read in the paper eight-some years
ago. The subject of the article was that the Constitution, 14th Amendment,
says that USA citizens don't lose their right to vote just because of
being homeless. A court ruled that the 'home address' line on voter
registration forms is only for purposes of identification and a homeless
person's registration may not be invalidated just because their 'home
address' is the location of the bus bench they sleep on rather than a
street address.

Anyway, they mentioned a big tree, with a little lawn around it, on a
corner in San Diego, and a number of homeless people camped on that lawn,
and they gave their address as Tree at (number) (streetname), corner of
(other streetname), and they actually attached a mailbox to the tree,
with that address written on it, and the letter carrier for their zip
code delivered mail to that mail box with no problem, unti some of them
registered to vote with that address, whereupon (apparently a politician
complained to a postmaster), the mailbox was abruptly confiscated by
Post Offal.

I'm not trying to make politics about homeless people, but I LIKE the
mailbox on the tree!