How does Petunia know about Dementors?

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at aol.com
Thu Apr 29 06:44:22 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 97182

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:

Jim:
> When Hagrid brought baby Harry to Little Whinging, Surrey, from
> Godric's Hollow, he mentioned that Harry fell asleep over Bristol.  
By
> extending a line between Surrey and Bristol the line extends into
> Wales, depending, I suppose, on where in Surrey "Little Whinging" 
is.
>  I never looked at it myself.

Geoff:
Yes, I'd forgotten that. He certainly could have come from Wales 
unless he curved round to avoid towns as the "broomstick gang" did on 
their way to Grimmauld Place in OOTP.
 
Jim: 
> People also cite that the Sorting Hat's song once said Godric
> Gryffindor was "from fen," which was taken to suggest Wales.

Geoff:
The Fens are an area in Lincolnshire and East Anglia on the East 
coast so I wouldn't personally have made an association with Wales 
from that.





More information about the HPforGrownups archive