Setting of Diagon Alley

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4370

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 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.

Amanda, I think you and Simon are in complete agreement. He said 
Elizabethan and what's the name of that style with crossed beams, and 
you described what sounds like an Elizabethan street and said 
'half-timbers'.

As soon I as read Simon's post, I could "see" Diagon Alley as looking 
like the Renaissance Faire, except with paved sidewalks and wetter 
weather, and thus I am not COMPLETELY sure what Diagon Alley 
previously looked like to me. But I suspect it looked like a street
of Victorian or mock-Victorian shops, maybe with a proper 
macadamized road instead of cobblestones.