WW Cultural bias re clothes and cupboard?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 123572


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Pippin:
> Do you have canon for the room being so small Harry couldn't 
> stand upright in it? Maybe it *was* magically expanded.
> 
> Pippin

Tonks now:

I think that when Harry was young the room would have been just find 
size wise. A room under the stairs can have quite a bit of room. I 
always thought of his room being about the size of a walkin closet 
that we had under the stairs when I was a kid. It was about the same 
size as my small bedroom. A small kid could have been happy in 
there. Quiet place all to himself to hid from the brat upstairs. Of 
couse as Harry got bigger then it would have become a problem. And, 
of course, they should not lock him in it. I think of that whole 
scene in a more symbolic context. Like Muggles locking the magic 
part of themselves in the forgotten cupboard. Pretent it isn't 
there, too dangerious to look at and understand. Doesn't fit with 
the scientific mind, etc.

Tonks_op