Chapter Discussions: Chapter 4, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 83823

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" <jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> >>> Laura:
> > > Marianne's post made me wonder if one of the reasons the Order 
> chose 
> > Grimmauld Place was that it was in a somewhat iffy neighborhood, 
> > perhaps the kind of place where the residents purposely don't 
take 
> > notice of each other's comings or goings.  
> 
> June:  I got the distinct and purely subjective sense of a couple 
of 
> particular neighbourhoods in London here.  I'd be interested to 
hear 
> the views of anyone else who knows London about this.
> 
> My geographical siting of 12 Grimmauld Place was (for no other 
reason 
> but that I know them fairly well) either Hackney in North East 
London 
> or Stoke Newington - similarly located and virtually next door.  
(snip)> 
> June

Carolyn (an N8 resident):
In Chapter 10 of Oop it says it took them 20min to walk from no 12 to 
Kings Cross, so although I agree that both these locations have the 
right feel, I think they are too far out. I'd placed the house up in 
those streets of Georgian terraces up to the N and E of Kings Cross, 
which were once elegant but are now decaying and sometimes scary to 
walk around.