[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily and Petunia

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 176492


> montims:
> oh gosh, hard to explain to a non Brit, but I lived in Derbyshire or a 
> time,
> and all around were these streets and streets and streets of little dingy
> terraced houses, stretching for ever - originally (150 years ago?) of red
> brick, now grimy and dreary.  Has anyone seen Coronation Street?  Does 
> this
> long link work?
> http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/a4/Coronationstreetlogo1960.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.answers.com/topic/coronationstreetlogo1960-jpg&h=240&w=360&sz=48&hl=en&start=27&um=1&tbnid=erIYhsEN8VxTZM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcoronation%2Bstreet%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D100%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
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> England had its cotton mills too, but I see Spinners End and Snape's
> upbringing in a pit town - coal mines - with its accompanying filth and
> squalour and misery...
>
> YMMV...

Shelley:

Montims, your link does work.

I've visited coal mining towns, and in areas around the coal mines the dust 
gets into everything. It's like living on a dry dirt road, where every car 
that goes by stirs up the dust, except that in coal processing areas that 
dust is black coal dust. Areas along the railroad tracks that carried car 
loads of coal, the same black trail of dust could be seen. In other areas, 
different industries pollute the air, and what settles out of that air ends 
up in the dust on your homes. I had visited a friend whose local industry 
left a yellowish dust that had the accompanying sulfur smell to it, and it 
would work it's way into your clothing and unexpected places just because it 
was everywhere and you couldn't help tracking it as you moved, and the wind 
was blowing it around. I'd rather have coal smell than sulfur smell any day.

Back to canon, I agree that I could see Snape coming from a coal mining 
area.