Harry Lives With / The Fountain of Magical Brethren / The Hanged Man

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 87086

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> wrote:

> Angel Moules wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/86828 :
> 
> << "The Hanged Man" suggests to me that the area might have been part
> of the 19th Century riots that gripped the countryside as farming was
> mordernised (c.f. Ulverton, by Adam Thorpe). It suggests a particular
> hanging, perhaps one where the locals were in sympathy with the
> criminal rather than the victim. >>

> Catlady:
> 
> I thought "The Hanged Man" was just a pun on HANGleton, and perhaps a
> reference to a Tarot card.

bboy_mn:

Don't all British pubs have colorfull picturesque names that draw on
national, regional, or local history, or legend? 

Aren't the all things like "The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley
Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn" (found that one on the net, it's really
a pub), The Red Lion (re: King James of Scotland), The Crossed Keys
(re: emblem of St. Peter), etc....

So, I speculate JKR is once again giving us familiar bits of the real
world to make the story seem comfortable to us.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn