Muggleparents and Diagon Alley

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

No: HPFGUIDX 15544

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jennifer.k at l... wrote:
> Catherine wrote:
> 
> I get your point about the empty space - either side of the street 
is 
> > theatres, shops, restaurants and office space, so you are right 
> about 
> > the lack of empty space to fill.  I have a theory.  Remember in 
CoS 
> > when they all drive off to Kings Cross in Arthur Weaseley's 
flying 
> > car?  And how spacious it is inside, so a normal Ford can hold 8 
> > people comfortably and all their luggage?  I think the same 
> > manipulation of space is going on in the non-Muggle areas.  
Rather 
> > like a TARDIS.  (Did you get Dr Who in the USA?  If not I can 
> explain 
> > the reference.)
> > 
>  Now, I´m from little Sweden, we don´t get to see anything. So no, 
I 
> have not. I would much like to hear the reference...
>  :) /Jennifer

Dr Who was a British sci-fi show which ran from the 60s through to 
the 80s about a "timelord."  He could basically time travel 
throughout the galaxies.  Anyway, his ship was called the TARDIS 
which stood for "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space". The whole 
point about it was, that where ever Dr Who landed, his ship was 
supposed to blend in to the surroundings, but his was broken and 
looked like a small police telephone box which used to be common in 
England (rather like an opaque version of one of our old-fashioned 
red telephone boxes.)  
The point which is relevant to Diagon Alley is that this ship was 
tiny on the outside, huge on the inside, and the dimensions were so 
wharped that you could land a full sized TARDIS inside another one.  
This is how I was trying to explain (via the Ford Anglia) that the 
magic community may fit Diagon Alley into a well-populated area.
Blimey, I think I've got there!  I *think* that explains what I 
mean.  If this is terribly incoherent could someone else who has 
watched Dr Who (from behind the sofa) please help me out?
Thanks!
Catherine