Chapter 6 - The Portkey

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Date: 8/14/00 4:56 pm  (ET)

"Arthur appears not to know that the Diggorys live on the other side of
Ottery St Catchpole, which seems a bit odd."

The portkey gets them in just after 5am. The Diggory's got up at 2am
so could have travelled a fair distance in this time. There is the
possibility that they may even have driven some of the way. Therefore they
may not be as local to the Weasley's as is at first indicated. Reading
the rest of the book I get the impression that this meeting was to put
the Diggory's into our thinking and to demonstrate a portkey.

"If there are only four wizarding families in the area, do they live
among Muggle families or on the outskirts of the village [er...see
recent discussion]."

Sorry have missed some recent discussions since I have been away.

Where the Weasley's live is a matter that confuses me. I had always
placed them in the Midlands. But in GoF they get muggle taxis to the train
station. This suggests that they must live very close to London. If not
it would have cost a fortune to get the kids to the Hogwarts express.

The Weasley's say they live just outside a small village in CoS, and I
would guess most other wizards live in similarly remote locations. Arthur
who does a fair amount of study on muggles would fail to convincingly
pass himself of as one. This leads me to suspect that few wizards would
manage to live in highly populated muggle areas.

Simon