Where is the Leaky Cauldron

[flying_ford_anglia]

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From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Re: Where is the Leaky Cauldron
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6724] Where is the Leaky Cauldron
Date: 8/12/00 5:04 pm  (ET)

<<I thought that Neil said that the Leaky Cauldron (Muggle entrance)
is on King's Cross Road between
the Virgin Megastore and I-forget-what. But PoA chapter "The Knight Bus"
appears to say that it is
on Charing Cross Road. >>

I did say Charing Cross Road, but I'd forgotten that it was actually
*mentioned* in PoA.
It's a very logical location to my mind. London has many streets featuring
lots of one kind of shop and Charing Cross Road is particularly famous for
bookshops. There's everything from the pompous but atmospheric Foyle's to
the imported and trendy Borders, via the Silver Moon Women's bookshop and
a variety of flaking antiquarian booksellers. The street is also dotted
with pubs, bars and restaurants, and has several tributaries, some of
which house other specialists, such as vendors of musical instruments.

HP&tPS tells us that The Leaky Cauldron is between a large bookshop and a
record shop. Now I think about it, there used to be a small record shop
next to a bookshop in Charing Cross Road, but the former closed a few
years ago. It would, however, have been there in 1997, when Philosopher's
Stone was written.

Isn't this exciting?

Neil