godric's hollow and a PoA comment

[Simon]

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GODRIC'S HOLLOW

Jen: <<<Did anyone notice that the wizard who invented the golden snitch
also lived in Godric's Hollow QttA (if they did sorry I'm newish). For me
this pushes it towards being a village assuming that James Potter had
inherited his home along with his money. Although of course the inventor of
the snitch could possibly be an ancestor of the Potters himself and thus
own the family home.>>>

I was thinking about this comment and realises it could possibly answer
another question. Where did James get his money?

Jo Rowling has stated, in some interview or other that I forget the link
to, that James did not need to work for a living and took a job that he
wanted to do rather than a well paid one. Obviously, for this to be true,
he must have had a fair amount of money, which he most probably inherited
from his family. How about the idea of Harry being the great...grandson of
the Golden Snitch inventor?

The inventor of the Snitch would have probably made a fair amount of money
making and selling his product. If he/his family are the only ones who can
make the Snitch (or license the making to someone else) then over the
period of a few hundred years (the time between the Snitch being invented
and Harry coming along) this fortune would have grown to a reasonably large
amount.

QTA says that Bowman Wright of Godric's Hollow invented the Snitch. He had
many orders for it. If he, as I assumed above, was the only one making them
then he could have fixed the price as high as he liked.

My thoughts had always been the GH was a village (or maybe a small town),
but looking back at the quotes that mention it this does not have to be the
case. All could easily lead to the interpretation that GH refers only to
the house where the Potter's lived.


Which moves me onto my next point. What happened to the house and land it
is on? I would guess that this technically still belongs to Harry, but
there has been no mention of it to him. Will one day someone take him there
to see what remains? What does remain? Was the house rebuilt or the land
cleared?


POA COMMENT

I have noticed a few comments about Harry getting told off by Snape and
Lupin in PoA for being in Hogsmeade. I have a thought to add to this.

Why did it take Ron so long to get back? By the time Harry had got back
through the tunnel Draco had got back, found Snape and there was enough
time for Snape to make it from his dungeon or staff room (I favour the
former else one of the other teachers would have heard about it) to the
appropriate corridor. Snape then takes Harry down to his office and
proceeds to lecture him for a few minutes, and then Lupin is called. Only
after this does Ron turn up. Where had he been?

He should have been able to follow just behind Draco the whole way back to
work out where he went. Or does Draco know of some other shortcut between
Hogwarts and Hogsmeade? It seems unlikely that Ron should have taken so
long. He should have been able to be waiting for Harry by the end of the
tunnel.



Simon
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