How Big Was The Burrow?

[Heather Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 30349

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., lipglossusa at y... wrote:
> I think the reason Aurthur Weasley could expand the Ford Anglia was 
> because he secretly had spent many months working on it in the 
> garage... 
> I imagine it probably took some time for Arthur to cast spells 
> enabling the Ford to have its magical properties, and to expand a 
> whole house or even just the kitchen would probably be quite 
> difficult.

 Also recall that Molly Weasley knows so little about Muggle things 
that she apparently failed to realize that a muggle car like a Ford 
Anglia *shouldn't* seat eight people comfortably. It's amazing 
what you can fail to notice because it doesn't occur to you to 
pay attention! She's used to "Ministry cars" which Arthur seems to 
be able to requisition for personal use, and which we can expect are 
funky and Tardis-like as a design feature anyway. Whereas by contrast, 
she knows her house backwards and forwards and she *knows* how much 
space the Barrow quote-really-unquote contains inside.