JKR on the pensieve

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 134771

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "B.G." <hambtty at t...> wrote:

> Harry has a memory of the night his parents were killed and he 
will 
> use the pensieve to view it as a man instead of as a baby.  Maybe 
this 
> is when he realizes that Hagrid took him to Spinners End and Snape 
hid 
> him while DD made arrangements for Harry to go to the Dursley's.

That Harry can access his own memory occurred to me too, though I'm 
sure in his position it would be a truly traumatic thing to do.  I 
hope he takes Ron in there with him. Therefore, we don't actually 
need another person to have been at GH to tell Harry what happened.  
However, also in the interview JKR implied that there might have 
been an extra person/s there.  

I liked the Spinners End bit, good try! but geography is against 
it.  Spinners End is in a mill town.  The description is very much 
of the cities of the North of England, particularly around Leeds and 
Manchester.  Hagrid mentions flying over Bristol, which is in the 
South West of England and the Dursleys  live near London in the 
South East.  Hence, if Hagrid was taking Harry from the North to the 
Dursleys, he would have to go round 2 sides of a triangle in order 
to fly over Bristol!!  However, a route from South Wales to the 
Dursley's could easily fly over Bristol.  
Saraquel