Marge (wasRe: Harry Cunning or Manipulative?

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 148829

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom@> 
> 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.

Jen D here with her two cents:
I think Marge comes to stay even though she may not be so very far 
away to get a break from all of those dogs! Only brings Ripper 
because he can't do without her. Even if she's relatively close, 
this could be her only form of holiday.
Jen D, not really caring a fig about Aunt Marge but just letting her 
mind roam...
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