Way OT: 12 Grimmauld Place Appearance?

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 142117

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
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> bboyminn:
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> I hope this is on-topic enough that I can get away with it. I'm
> wondering how other people pictured 12 Grimmauld Place and 
Grimmauld
> Square in general.
> This is more likely in London. Also,
> despite my outward picture of the Black house as a mansion, I get a
> very /narrow/ sense of the interior space. 

Marianne:
I pictured Grimmauld Place (the street area including the park that 
the Advance Guard landed in) as a run-down version of places like 
Gramercy Park in New York City.  It's a small park with local 
streets bordering its four sides. On the other sides of these 
streets are what Steve is calling row houses, and what I would call 
townhouses or brownstones. They may not necessarily share a wall, 
but the space between them would be minimal, no more than a walkway 
for access to the back of the building. Certainly not a large enough 
space for lawns or gardens.  

I too got a sense of a narrow interior space.  I don't recall the 
characters in 12 GP moving from one room to another without going 
out into the hallway or walking up a flight of stairs.  And quite a 
bit of action is described as taking place in corridors, which added 
to my sense of the narrowness of the space.  It made me feel 
claustrophic. And that made me feel even sorrier for Sirius, who, 
aside from the trip accompanying Harry to the train station, 
submitted to DD's request that he keep himself imprisoned in that 
narrow, dark crypt. Ugh!

Marianne