in/at Godric's Hollow

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 17450

> > > > >In "The Boy Who Lived", SS, Macgonagall says, "What they're 
> saying,
> > > > >she pressed on, "is that last night Voldemort turned up in 
> Godric's
> > > > >Hollow

What comes after this all but clinches the fact that even if you can 
turn up IN someone's house (e.g. by Apparating), Voldemort turned up 
IN their village and THEN went to their house:

"Voldemort turned up in Godric's Hollow.  He went to find the 
Potters."

That doesn't sound like something you'd say if Godric's Hollow was 
their house.  Try it:

"last night Voldemort turned up in Good-Name-for-an-Aristocratic- 
House.  He went to find the Malfoys."

Doesn't work.  If "he went to find the Potters" means that's what he 
did after "turning up," then he has to have turned up in the village; 
you don't Apparate into someone's house and then go look for them 
(unless they're not in the house...)

If "he went to find the Potters" isn't meant to be something he did 
=after= arriving in GH, but is stated afterwards as an explanation of 
what he was doing there, it again implies that it's a village, because 
otherwise McGonagall's statement is ludicrously redundant.  "He 
turned up in the Potters' house.  He went to find the Potters." If 
it's their house, of course he was there to find them--why else would 
he have gone there?  (Maybe to leave a surprise gift and sneak out 
again.)

IIRC, we got onto this whole thing on the theory that Harry owns a 
house somewhere (or a lot, since that's all that was left . . . 
sniff).  He could still own a house that's IN Godric's Hollow but 
called something else, no?  It could be the grand house of GH and be 
called anything you like.  Though I can't get into the image of James 
and Lily occupying a manor, myself.  I guess I'm just overidentifying, 
because I picture them in a very cozy little cottage--i.e., the kind 
of place I'd want to live.  ;-)

Amy Z

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