Could Godtric's Hollow be on Avalon?
Judy
penumbra10 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 28 16:31:17 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 56348
Please forgive me if this was discussed before, but since there is a
good chance Harry could end up visiting Godric's Hollow in Book Five
or Six, it might do to ponder this a bit:
Has anyone made a suggestion as to the exact location of Godric's
Hollow?
If you look at a map of England, Bristol (which Hagrid mentions
flying over) and Surrey are in a straight line going slightly
northwest to slightly southeast of London. The problem is that
Bristol is bang on the western shore of England. If Hagrid flew the
most direct route, it would make absolutely no sense to overfly
Bristol unless he were coming from Wales, or Ireland, or much more
interestingly, the legendary isle of Avalon, (if JKR nudged it's
imaginary location a bit more south of the Isle of Man.) If Godric's
Hollow was indeed located on Avalon, then there are quite a few
intriguing conjectures that could come of it. [Please note there are
other speculative locations of Avalon, but many sources do place it
somewhere out in St. George's Channel]
Flying to Surrey from anywhere else in England or Scotland one would
miss Bristol entirely, unless, of course, there was a reason for
stopping there...
Does anyone have any other ideas?
--Judy, who needs Book Five quite badly as now she has taken to
hallucinating rather than speculating about what comes next.
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