Sticker on JKR trunk from England - Spoiler?

[Karen Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 132509

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlnbtr" <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tigerpatronus" 
> > <tigerpatronus at y...> wrote:
>  S P O I L E R S P A C E 
>  
>  S P O I L E R S P A C E 
> > > 
> > > One of the stickers on JKR's trunk that the signed copy of HBP 
> was delivered in says "Godric's Hollow, London" on it. Is this a 
> hint about where GH actually is? See pic (Spoilers?) 
> > -------
> > I just checked the picture, it also has many other stickers: 
> > Azkaban, Diagon Alley, Rock on the sea (PS), Scholastic, Queen 
> Mary, Hogwarts Express... This are all places we've heard about, 
so 
> what's the spoiler there?
> > 
> 
> Tonks:
> 
> I am really confused. It takes a long time for something to come 
to 
> the U.S. by boat. Why would they send it by boat instead of air?? 
> Especially if it is only one box? And how long have they been 
> printed? Think backwards. Are they Scholastic books signed by JKR? 
> If so they would have had to have been printed by Scholastic and 
> shipped to her and she would sign them and send them back.. by 
> BOAT??  That would have taken.. a couple of months, round trip at 
> least. Is it really possible??
> 
> Tonks_op

It actually takes less than a week to get from Southampton to New 
York.  I did it once about 17 years ago and we were at sea for 5 
nights and I have a vague memory or idea that the voyage was slower 
than it needed to be just to give you 5 nights aboard, although that 
may be wrong.

Ref an earlier question about a village being inside a city, London 
is actually made up of lots of villages that joined together as they 
grew.  The City of London itself, also known as the square mile to 
indicate its size, is actually the financial district from Liverpool 
St Station around Threadneedle Street where the Bank of England is 
etc.  The area that people think of as 'London' ie the House of 
Commons, Downing Street, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square is Westminster 
which was another village.  Then there are Chelsea, Southwark, 
Greenwich, Marylebone and loads of others.  Greater London is 
growing steadily.  When I was at School Bromley to the south was in 
Kent and Stanmore to the north was in Middlesex, but they are both 
now London Boroughs. 

Having said that, I have always understood Godrick's Hollow to be a 
rural village somewhere - I couldn't see a picture with this 
particular sticker on, but as Tonks said the books were probably 
sent from the USA first so the box and stickers may have come from 
there in the first place.

Karen