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

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 86827

Steve wrote:
>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.

Do you mean here that JKR got the idea of the orphanage from one in London,
or that Tom Riddle was incarcerated in one in London? If the latter, then
I'd be interested to know how he actually got there - my reading suggested
that Hangleton was in the North of England, which would have meant that
Tom's mother would have either had to have trekked down to London to give
birth (in which case, how does Tom find out the story of his parentage,
given that the one person who could have told him was long dead) or
alternatively that she gave birth and died in the Hangleton area and Tom was
placed in the local workhouse orphanage (where he could by several means
have found out his history, but where he would have resided until he left
school - there wouldn't have been a logical means for him to have been
transferred to another orphanage in London).

Cheers

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