Book 5

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 21766

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:
> I did some crystal-gazing this morning and the orb showed me the 
> exact setting of the first chapter of OoP: Imagine a camera taking 
in 
> Harley Street, London, then slowing down and finally stopping at a 
> brass plaque saying: 
> 
>                       Ethelbert & Heloise Granger
>                               Dentists
> 
> Camera takes in Harley Street again, zooms at two black-haired men 
in 
> billowing black cloaks, coming from opposite ends of the street, 
> obviously heading for the same place (dentists): It's Severus and 
> Sirius, they have appointments at 10 (one with Mr., one with Mrs. 
> Granger) for the first whitening treatment of their yellow teeth.
> Reluctantly, because they still don't like each other very much, 
they 
> enter and have to wait (in spite of being the first patients of the 
> day) one hour, sitting-which is even more bothering- on a love-
seat, 
> as there's no ohter chair. As they don't want to talk, they read 
> magazines, silently wondering at the non-moving pictures.
> When Sirius sees a pic of Camilla Parker-Bowles at Ascot, wearing a 
> most dreadful pink, lace-trimmed hat, he suddenly says: "Oh dear, 
> she's got a hat like mum's!" Severus, already VERY bored by Muggle 
> magazines, casts a short look and says. "Impossible, MY mother used 
> to wear hats like that!" As time goes by, they exchange childhood 
> memories and discover they're brothers. Their mother has put a 
Memory 
> Spell (obviously too weak) on Severus, before shoving him off into 
a 
> wizard orphanage. Tears, embraces, apologies, promises.......fade- 
out
> 
> OK, I'm going to have to nail my head to the floor, but I just 
liked 
> it
> Susanna

OK, I'm going to be really nit-picky here.  (Apologise in advance).  
Harley Street is famous in London for the medical profession, but 
these are specifically doctors.  Wimpole Street, which is parallel to 
Harley Street, is where the dentists hang out.  I did say it was 
nitpicky, but it's true all the same.

Catherine