Vauxhall Road again

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 87267

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, carolynwhite2 at a... wrote:

Carolyn: 

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> On the issue of paper shortages and rationing - yes, they were 
quite 
> severe, and I would have thought that this would have pushed the 
> price up. Which makes me question even more where or how a poor 
> orphan boy found the muggle money to buy it.
> 
> So what if he didn't ? A further thought is that it was bought for 
> him by a muggle who could afford it. This would avoid the need for 
> Tom to be anywhere near dangerous, war-torn muggle London (though, 
I 
> suppose it wouldn't have been a dangerous place for a wizard, who 
> could protect himself from danger). 


Geoff:
This was probably not as dangerous a situation as you think. The last 
big air raids of the "Blitz" on London were in May 1941 and 1942/3 
saw very sporadic occurrences. in fact, at the beginning of 1943, 
some of the blackout restrictions were relaxed. As I remarked in a 
previous post, things didn't really warm up again until the V1 
attacks began in the summer of 1944 followed by the V2 campaign later 
in the year. So Tom and others of his generation would have been able 
to move around London fairly safely.