[HPforGrownups] Re: Muggleparents and Diagon Alley

[tobeybickle at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15549

In a message dated 3/29/01 2:10:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk writes:


> > 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.)
> 

This reminds me of my score in the Harry Potter obsessive thing.. I'm about 
82 percent obsesive. Is that pretty high? I think it is. Good, I'm proud :) I 
think I got a lot of points for saying that I've spent an afternoon searching 
for Diagon Alley, even though I don't live in the UK.. If only I'd had the 
time to make it to King's Cross, too :(  Anyway, I think I'd probably be a 
solid 95% if I had the financial means to follow JKR around the world. Oh 
well, maybe someday.

Oh.. and about the actual topic, I always thought that the entance to Diagon 
Alley was disguised  as a store we could see, but that had Muggle-repelling 
charms on it so noby ever entered, and other kinds of charms so that it looks 
innocuous.


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