OOP: Where Harry might go in book five?

[ajlboston]

No: HPFGUIDX 58046

Oops!  Sorry, you beat me to the post!  But I have more...

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bowlwoman" <bowlwoman at y...> 
wrote:> Based on the description we have in GoF, I'm inclined to 
believe it 
> IS the Riddle house:
> 
> GoF (US hardback, pg 1)
> 
> >>> It stood on a hill overlooking the village, some of its windows 
> boarded, tiles missing from its roof, and ivy spreading unchecked 
> over its face.  ONce a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest 
and 
> grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, 
> derelict, and unoccupied. <<<
> 
> To me, that description in GoF fits this illustration to a "T".  We 
> see ivy growing on the face of the house, broken/boarded up windows 
> and a very tall, stately and once grand building that looks 
> distinctly abandoned.

The architectural style also makes me think it's the Riddle house.  
Mansard roofs, and the other features shown, are almost exclusively 
used to depict Haunted Houses on Halloween cards.  Many sprawling 
houses of that era were built for large families, and then fell into 
disrepair; who has not been intrigued by some personally (at least in 
certain parts of the world)?  In fact, I went to school in a building 
like that and everyone who saw pictures bought into the Haunted House 
image too.

A.J.