And what about Madame Marsh ?(was Regarding Bill)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 87260

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, digger <altered.earth at n...> 
wrote:

digger:
> 
> Ah, Madame Marsh, the witch with chronic travel sickness ;-) I was 
> thinking about her today. Abergavenny is in Wales, and it is 
> not-quite-but-almost on a straight route to Surrey via Bristol. I 
was 
> just musing on the possibility of Godric's Hollow being somewhere 
close 
> to Abergavenny. How about Madame Marsh was a neighbour of the 
Potters?

Geoff:
Depends what you mean by a not-quite-but-almost(!) and which route 
you mean.

In POA, the Knight Bus goes from Little Whinging to Abergavenny and 
finally gets to London via Angelsea and Aberdeen which a very 
convoluted trip. This is reminiscent of the old English joke about 
going from London to Brighton via Inverness (which in practice would 
be travelling about 1000 miles in order to go 50). In OOTP, part of 
the journey at least is London via Birmingham to presumably 
Abergavenny (not actually named)and then Hogsmeade. This is much less 
tortuous than Harry's first journey but still a somewhat bent 
straight line.

Geoff