[HPforGrownups] Re: Question about wizards and living....

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47716


Andrea:
> Good point, Rob.  My impression was that the Burrow was just on the
> outskirts of town, that ramshackle old house everyone knows about but
> nobody bothers going to, probably shielded just enough by trees and such
> that its odd shape isn't as noticeable.  But showing it in the absolute
> middle of nowhere, as they did in TMTMNBN, is going TOO far, IMO.

I hestitate to answer this as it may be deemed to movie-related, but 
honestly, I don't think we saw *very* wide surroundings and it was *exactly* 
the kind of setting I imagined and not at all unlikely to be very close to an 
English Muggle village. Lots of English farms and houses are *just outside* 
villages, but quite isolated in themselves. I imagine it's up a narrow lane. 
We have lots of very narrow, twisty country lanes with high banks on either 
sides and trees, ones you just wouldn't go up unless you had a reason to.

Oh and Jacqui, I'm not being unkind, but I did have to chuckle at the idea of 
Ron saying he lived in the boonies! Do you realise just how American that is? 
Yes, the word boondogs is not unknown over here (though I've never heard a 
child say it and we'd be more likely to talk about living in the sticks, or 
in the back of beyond, or whatever), but he'd be as unlikely to say 'boonies' 
as he would be to say 'Mom'. Oh, I just remembered, in the US editions they 
*do* say 'Mom'. Believe me, he wouldn't!

Bboy_mn:
>I can also see large (somewhat large) muggle neighborhoods in London
>that have gradually over time changed into predominantly magic
>neighborhoods. Much the way you see certain neighborhoods take on an
>ethnic character like 'little Italy', Chinatown, etc...

Ooh...I wonder where they are? I'll have to keep a look out next time I'm in 
town.
I'm afraid I haven't noticed any of them yet.

Though I wouldn't be surprised in Glastonbury (in Somerset) didn't have a 
pretty big magical community. There are certainly plenty of oddly attired 
people wandering round there who could easily be witches/wizards in disguise. 
;-) In fact I'm sure that some of them *are* witches (though not the HP kind) 
- it's that sort of place.

Eloise
(Just jealous because she knows she can't get away with dressing like a 
hippie or dying her hair a fetching shade of blue.)





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