Leaky Cauldron, real location? I Know!

nineve_laguna nineve_laguna at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 11 21:50:20 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 76604

I remember, even though cannot say exactly which page, in PS/SS that
Hagrid and Harry get the train to LONDON BRIDGE, which is south of 
the river, full of little scruffy non-descriptive shops, back alleys 
hidden to public view, and with a pub near it on a main road with 
loads of passing-by-fast-but-not-stopping-here trafic. I have seen 
the place before I read the books, and associated straight away with 
Diagon Alley and The Leaky Cauldron. In fact, the pub I am talking 
about is very thin, and has a hidden alley on the back with loads of 
warehouse suppliers that you can only get to if you know they are 
there, thruw a small hidden passage in a back road. You can hear the 
buzz from the wharehouses from the pub, but from the main road you 
can`t. Also from the warehouses you can only see the brick wall of 
the pub and other buildings, that form a high wall in the shape of a 
half moon, where you do`t hear the main road either. The locals at 
the pub look "suspicious" or like hags. And the warehouses are 
suppliers of imported goods, such as exotic spices, oils, and some 
strange things in glass jars.
I have been meaning to go back there, but never really had the time.
London Bridge is a most weird place, and it fits in with JKR's 
description.
Nineve.





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