What we find there- Places - real and imagined

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 117042


> 
> Carol responds:
> I think you're both right that Spinners End is not only a place but 
a
> road. Doesn't "end" suggest a cul de sac, like Bag End in LOTR? I
> don't think it's a real road, though--probably a fictional one like
> Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, and possibly in that same
> (imaginary) section of London. 
> 
> As for the name itself, "spinners" could be intended literally: 
people
> (generally women) who spin thread from wool or other fibers, 
possibly
> still done in some magical way in the WW, so Spinners End would be 
the
> dead-end street where cloth is spun and perhaps woven (before going 
to
> Madame Malkin and her competitors to be fashioned into robes). But
> "spinners" could also suggest some mythical connotation: Clotho of 
the
> Three Fates again?
> 
> In any case, I think Steve is probably correct that a house in
> Spinners End is the new Order headquarters, especially since it
> appears so early in the book and we know Harry won't be spending 
much
> time with the Dursleys.

Finwitch:

I took the link to see a ROAD named Spinners End near Bristol. Such a 
thing existing - well, probably nothing to do with HP, but still 
there - and Bristol WAS mentioned before... While I do think this IS 
a place, and propbably to do with spinners at spinning wheel, and 
that Harry will spend most of his summer there - I don't know if it 
has *anything* to do with the Order of the Phoenix.

A place - a road - I suppose Harry will go there and stay, and that 
Godric's Hollow might be near it.. 

Still, why would it need to be HQ for the order? Why not a place 
where this half blood prince (who ever he is) lives? Or maybe 
Aberforth Dumbledore? Or - well, Tonks? Moody? Lupin? Longbottom?

Hmm... Imagine Aberforth Dumbledore appearing at Dursleys, ready to 
take Harry away? Or Sirius, coming back as a phoenix?

Finwitch