[HPforGrownups] Setting of Diagon Alley

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4363

Scott wrote:

> Now I'm not the smartest w/ Architecture but I believe that what I
> described would be Elizabethen, right?  Well I'm interested to see
> how other people picture DA?

I've only been in England once, on our way home from our honeymoon in
Poland, and we drove up to York from London and then back (had a quest to
fulfill, long off-topic romantic story, etc.) Anyway, I picture Diagon Alley
like those little streets full of shops in York, where the upper storeys
hang out over the lower, and each building looks different than the one next
to it, but they're all stuck together anyway, and they've sagged from age,
and there's lots of half-timbers and stuff.

How zat? By the way, Simon, I love your posts but curse your name, because
these places you mention so casually going by are names in books to me,
impossibly faraway and hard to imagine as real places where dogs wander and
pigeons poop. Sigh. I wanna go back to England. Or Poland--Krakow was
awesome.

--Amanda