Marge (wasRe: Harry Cunning or Manipulative?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 148815

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
>  
> > Geoff:
> snip
>  They've also got the terrifying thought of 
> > placating Dudley who would probably go ballistic if his birthday 
trip 
> > was delayed because of the problem. No, Aunt Marge has got to be 
> > somewhere fairly close.
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> PoA, chapter 2;
> 
> "Aunt Marge lived in the country in a house with a large garden, 
where 
> she bred bulldogs."
> 
> Her train came in at 10 in the morning. 
> 
> How far away is the country and how often do trains run? Or could 
> Vernon be so terrified that he was grasping at impossible straws?
> 
> As for trains, my youngest has discovered the Beatles and we 
recently 
> watched "A Hard's Day's Night." A portion of it takes place on a 
train. 
> Which to me looked just like the Hogwarts Express.
> 
> You would have thought the movie would take me back to my  Beatles 
> days, but no, I kept thinking the boys were on their way to 
Hogwarts. 
> From my current point of view, they looked young enough.
> 
> Potioncat, who hasn't worked something this OT into a canon-based 
post 
> in a long time.

Geoff:
Depends on what you mean by the country. Staff I used to work with 
who lived in the Epsom area would say that they lived in the country, 
yet that was only 3-4 miles beyond the edge of "suburbia".  I am 
surprised that Marge came by train. I would expect many folk living 
any distance into the country, particularly Marge's type to have a 
car.

Mark you, it is possible that she moved house between 1991-1993.