Godric's Hollow and Neville---Some Unexamined Assumptions

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No: HPFGUIDX 31895

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> Somebody above mentioned that a straight line from Bristol to Surrey
(which
> is just south of London, making Harry a resident of the outermost
ring of
> London 'burbs, if I remember my UK geography correctly---of course,
when I
> was there, I resisted leaving London with resolve worthy of a better
cause)
> goes to Wales, and then to Ireland.  Hence, we here have assumed that
> Godric's Hollow must be in Wales.

I agree with where the line lies (who said Wales was too far north?  I
have the line going directly through southern Wales, across the Irish
Sea, and up  through lower Ireland, etc).  I don't suppose Godric's
Hollow could be right OUTSIDE Bristol, on the coast.  I mean, a baby
falls asleep relatively quickly...and since Hogsmeade is explicitly
stated as the only wizarding town in the UK, why do we all
automatically assume Godric's Hollow is also a wizarding town, with
ties to Godric Gryffindor of Hogwarts?  Perhaps it was founded as a
"blend-in" town by a few wizards for a good place to live among
Muggles.  Is there any sort of Welsh culture-ties that could somehow
fit a description of Godric's Hollow, or all we all grasping at straws
here?

-Megan

(P.S. thought--If the Potters had indeed lived in Ireland, couldn't
this be something else the Dursleys would hold against her family
("and then that rubbish Potter moved her to IRELAND!")?  In my short
stay between the two countries, I can definitely see this detail as
something someone like Petunia would hold against her small nephew)