What we find there (was: How to Get Through the Door)--SPOILERS!!!

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 116884


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> > > DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO FIND THIS OUT FOR YOURSELF
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> > > I MEAN IT!!
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> > > So the three chapters are:
> > > Spinners End
> > > Draco's Detour
> > > Felix Felicis
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> > > 1) Spinners End sounds like a *place* to me. Harry's shortest
> > > stay ever on Privet Drive, anyone?<snip>


Neri wrote:

Spinners End certainly sounds like a place. IMO it is the Order's 
new HQ, or at least their safe place for Harry. It's only the second 
chapter (the first chapter will be the opening chapter that JKR had 
almost used several times in the past). 12GP is probably not HQ 
anymore, since Narcissa would guess this from Kreacher even if he 
wasn't able to tell her, the Borrow is certainly not safe enough, so 
Spinners End it is. Where is it? My guess is at the less savory end 
of Nockturn Alley. They'll be spinning all kind of interesting 
things there. It'll be conveniently close to Borgin & Burks, the 
Weasley Wizarding Weezies, The Leaky Cauldron and other attractions.

Googling "Spinners End" I found that it is the name of a romantic 
book by Mary Minton... <snip> According to the book review this is a 
place in London, but it doesn't appear like it really exists. 

Dungrollin responds:

I'm with you on this, all except for it being around Nockturn 
Alley.  If I were looking for a new HQ for the top-secret OotP, it 
certainly wouldn't be in the WW.  How secret would that be?  

For some unknown reason, I was imagining a ramshackle old building, 
all rough oak beams and off-white whitewash, covered in liberal 
sprinklings of lichen and moss, with an ancient and rotting stile 
(into the sheep fields nearby), and surrounded by lime trees (or 
beech trees).  Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, or Gloucestershire.  
Goodness only knows why, but the image sprang to mind...

Dungrollin