Whose Death Was The Saddest - book 7

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 174173

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lisa" <sassymomofthree at ...> 
wrote:
> ::::gasp:::::  The Muggle town where Lily & Petunia & Snape grew 
> up?  Could that be the same town where Harry grew up?  Interesting!
> 
> Lisa

Mus:  Although that would be neat, I'm afraid they're unlikely to be 
the same place.  Harry's letter in PS is addressed to Little 
Whinging, Surrey, which is in the south east of England, bordering 
Greater London - suburban, commuter belt. The town where Snape and 
the Evans girls grew up, and by assumption the same one that's 
described in the Spinner's End chapter of HBP, is described as a 
grimy, post-industrial town, with a polluted river and a factory 
chimney - the sort of urban landscape one finds in the North of 
England.  The Lexicon makes a good case for it being near Manchester 
in the North West (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-spinners-
end.html).  


Mus, who's hoping there isn't a Northern "it's grim up North" 
stereotype lurking here.  Surely not.