Lily and Petunia

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 176494

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
 
> montims:

> 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...

Geoff:
I made a similar comparison way back when HBP first came out. I grew 
up in Burnley in East Lancashire which was both a cotton weaving and 
coal mining town and the descriptions reminded me so much of the 
houses we lived in at that time. I *could* empathise with Snape over 
that....