Ottery St. Catchpole / Mrs. Figg

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 22762

I've been on vacation, camping along the shores of Lake Michigan, 
basking in 85 F. sunshine and of course, working on the Lexicon. So I 
haven't had time to keep up with a lot of discussions around here. I 
will toss a couple of notes into the fray here, though.

1) Ottery St. Catchpole - The "Ottery" part of the name refers to the 
fact that it's a village along the Otter River, which Ottery St. Mary 
is as well. We can safely narrow the location of the Burrow to that 
area, then, and along the river as well. My atlas of Britain doesn't 
show the river, so I can't be more exact (I'm going to have to find a 
better atlas, I think). 

2) JKR did state specfically that Mrs. Figg and Arabella Figg were 
the same person in the Blue Peter interview.

Related Lexicon resources:

Arabella Figg
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/figg.html

The Burrow
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/w_pl_burrow.html

Information about Muggle places, including Ottery St. Mary
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/muggle_places.html

the Atlas of Wizarding Britain
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/atlas-b.html

Cheers
Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon