It's possible there ISN'T an Heir of Gryffindor and o...

[Anna Hemmant]

No: HPFGUIDX 58487

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/21/2003 8:43:35 AM Central Standard Time, 
> orlaquirke2002 at y... writes:
> 
> > but I don't think that Godric's 
> > Hollow is specifically mentioned as a town or a villiage. In 
fact, 
> > I'd always thought of it as a house name, and I'm as sure as I 
can 
> > be without checking that the reason that I get this impression is 
> > because we hear it in the same kind of context as
> 
> I need to get the book but my impression was that it was a place.  
A Hollow 
> being: "a depressed or low part of a surface; especially : a small 
valley or 
> basin"   .. and I just can't see a house being named after a basin. 
The 
> Burrow being a house's name makes more sense to me because I 
picture it as 
> being full of little passages and hidey holes ect which is exactly 
what a 
> burrow (well technically its a hole its ground that rabbits 
(gnomes??) and 
> the like use for shelter .. but I digress)  Also 'burrow' is a 
more 'cuddly" 
> word. . Makes me think of burrowing under the covers where its warm 
and safe.

me again:
I really want to hold fast to my initial interpretation, and say that 
Godric's hollow sounds like an unpretentious name for an old british 
estate; some old estates are refered to as 'park', and it always 
struck me as a more old worldy type mystical version of this; James 
was supposed to be rich, right? However, I may just have to stand 
down; I've looked, and can't find anything to prove or disprove my 
point, and it seems rather weak, so I'm just going to keep my idea 
about the potter's home, hope I'm proved right later on, and not 
argue about it right now.
Anna