Way OT: 12 Grimmauld Place Appearance?

deborahhbbrd hubbada at unisa.ac.za
Fri Oct 28 10:11:08 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 142219

>From "M. Thitathan:" 
No snips, but a gist: the confusing appearance and disappearance of a
whole house, and the numbering problems arising from it.

Deborah:
What about the street numbers next door? I've never lived in a London
square, but I suspect that the numbers run consecutively around it, 1
next to 2 next to 3 ... not 1 next to 3 and then 2 and 4 etc across
the road. And who wants to live in number 13? (Actually, why wouldn't
the Blacks? Oh well.) Surprisingly often you find 12 and 12(a) ... so
a little confusion is built in and easy to account for if, in spite of
all magical obstacles, you stop to think ... the (a) of 12(a) could be
of varying intensity even, visible to its occupants and the postie but
not really noticeable to the public. And then you'd have 11 and 12 but
no 13, and no missing house either.

Deborah, missing England and humming the Postman Pat song










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