Totally Obssessed - Found It! - Spinners End - Near BRISTOL!

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 117035


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:

Steve/bboyminn: 
> So if Hagrid is flying from Spinners End to Surrey, he would have 
had
> to fly close to Bristol. 
> 
> Or, I could just be TOO obssessed and it could mean nothing. 
> 
> You be the judge.

Geoff:
I don't quite follow what you're trying to say here.

I assume that you are referring to Hagrid bringing Harry from 
Godric's Hollow to Privet Drive at the beginning of PS. What 
connection has this flight got to do with Spinner's End?

If he were flying from the Spinner's End which you have found in 
Worle, which is, as you say, on the north side of W-s-M, the most 
direct line to Little Whinging (if we accept the view that it is in 
the bit of Surrey north of the river) would take you over Bath south 
of Bristol. If Little Whinging is more into "traditional" Surrey he 
would fly even further south. But Hagrid comments that he flew "over" 
Bristol. (PS "The Boy Who Lived" p.16 UK edition).

But, as I have said, I don't see the Spinners End connection. Other 
folk have also indicated Spinners End in Sandwell as a possibility - 
especially with the Dudley connection.

Geoff
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