CHAPDISC: DH10, Kreacher's Tale - House of Black

[clairekennyplatt]

No: HPFGUIDX 180252

dreamyclaire:
Please excuse any mistakes in the editing I've never done this
before

> > Potioncat:
> > I have bowed to the overwhelming viewpoint that this was
> > Teen! Sirius's bedroom, and that certain of his belongings
> > were brought here after he went to Azkaban. ... I find it a
> > little creepy that adult?Sirius would have slept in this
> > room with no changes to it; so no, I don't he used this room.

dreamyclaire:
I did wonder how this letter came to be in teen Sirius's room
and I wondered why his mother would have kept it if it was given
to her and why she left his room as it was. I have heard of many
grieving mothers leaving there child's room as it was but not
mothers who were so upset by there child's behaviour, they tend
to remove all traces of the child.

> Steve:
> Are Ground Floor and Main Floor the same, or is ground floor
> essentially the half-underground basement, and the Main Floor
> is the level at which most people enter the building? Then
> are First Floor and Main Floor the same? Usually, UK buildings
> are Main Floor (at roughly street level) then First Floor (
> one floor above street level) and so on.

dreamyclaire:
The main floor in a big old fashioned house is not necessarily
the ground floor, It would often have been the first floor. I
always saw the kitchen as just below street level a few steps
rather than half a flight but that could possibly be more in
reference to the kitchen in my mother's house and several friends
parents' houses where you always seemed to step down into the
kitchen even if only by one step.

> Steve:
> Back to the house; so 6 bedroom at least. There is a reference
> to the Upstairs bathroom, which implies a second downstairs
> bathroom; so two at least though I suspect at least three.

dreamyclaire:
Not necessarily my mother always says the back kitchen but she
has only ever had one kitchen, also it would have probably been
built pre indoor plumbing (like my house) so it would be difficult
to find space for an indoor bathroom (mine is an entire room 15ft
by 13ft whereas my neighbour has a downstairs bathroom where my
kitchen is, a kitchen where my dinning room is and a bedroom where
my bathroom is) so as you can see putting a bathroom in can be
quite difficult, this sort of sized house would probably have
been built with servents' quarters in the attic and they would
be an ideal size for a bathroom.
(contradicting my self completely but you get the idea)

> Steve:
> I suspect reasonably that their is a Study/Den/Library room
> as well, it seems very unlikely that a nice house like this
> wouldn't have one.

> Now, is the Drawing Room the same as the Living Room or Lounge,
> or would those be other rooms in the house?

dreamyclaire:
Yes they are other rooms but a living room and lounge are the
same things hear in England, a drawing room could also be called
a study; there would have been books, a desk, possibly a small
sofa, even a wireless.

> Steve:
> I have always pictured the Black House as looking distinctly
> out of place. Amoung somewhat modern brick and stone house,
> it would have a very dark and dreary castle-like quality to
> it.

dreamyclaire:
Whereas I always pictured it to be in a terraced row of identical
houses as you so often see around squares in England just looking
older and shabbier because of the years of neglect.