Vauxhall Road and the Elixir of Life ( was The Diary (just where did V get

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hp_lexicon" <steve at h...> 
wrote:
> > In re: Vauxhall Road
> 
> 
> Steve Vander Ark:
> > You might want to take a look... <snip> ....a reference to 
> > another Vauxhall Road which brings up some interesting 
> > coincidences...
> > 
> > The essay in question is located here:
> > http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essay-streets.html
> > 
> 
> Geoff:
> However, before you start re-locating Tom Riddle's orphanage to 
> Chepstow (I do prefer names like Cas-Gwent and Cas-Newydd to the 
> mundane English versions), remember that, in canon, the book 
> carried "the printed name of a newsagent's in Vauxhall Road, 
LONDON" -
>  my emphasis.
> 

The intention of this essay is not to suggest that the orphanage is 
in Chepstow. It is to suggest where Rowling may have gotten her 
ideas for names of streets. We have the orphanage pegged in London, 
right down to the actual place, although the real one wasn't a bad 
place at all.

Steve
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