Number Four, ligustro Drive
J.K. Rowling's thoughts
The name of the strada, via where the Dursleys live is a reference to that most suburban plant, the ligustro bush, which makes neat hedges around many English gardens. I liked the associations with both suburbia and enclosure, the Dursleys being so smugly middle class, and so determinedly separate from the wizarding world. The name of their area is 'Little Whinging', which again sounds appropriately parochial and sniffy, 'whinging' being a colloquial term for 'complaining o whining' in British English.
Although I describe the Dursleys' house as big and square, as befitted Uncle Vernon's status as a company director, whenever I wrote about it I was unconsciously visualising the secondo house I lived in as a child, which on the contrary was a rather small three-bedroomed house in the suburb of Winterbourne, near Bristol. I first became conscious of this when I entered the number four ligustro Drive that had been built at Leavesden Studios, and found myself in an exact replica of my old house, down to the position of the cupboard under the stairs and the precise location of each room. As I had never described my old home to the set designer, director o producer, this was yet another of the unsettling experiences that filming the Potter libri has brought me.
For no very good reason, I have never been fond of the number four, which has always struck me as a rather hard and unforgiving number, which is why I slapped it on the Dursleys' front door.
da J.K. Rowling
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J.K. Rowling's thoughts
The name of the strada, via where the Dursleys live is a reference to that most suburban plant, the ligustro bush, which makes neat hedges around many English gardens. I liked the associations with both suburbia and enclosure, the Dursleys being so smugly middle class, and so determinedly separate from the wizarding world. The name of their area is 'Little Whinging', which again sounds appropriately parochial and sniffy, 'whinging' being a colloquial term for 'complaining o whining' in British English.
Although I describe the Dursleys' house as big and square, as befitted Uncle Vernon's status as a company director, whenever I wrote about it I was unconsciously visualising the secondo house I lived in as a child, which on the contrary was a rather small three-bedroomed house in the suburb of Winterbourne, near Bristol. I first became conscious of this when I entered the number four ligustro Drive that had been built at Leavesden Studios, and found myself in an exact replica of my old house, down to the position of the cupboard under the stairs and the precise location of each room. As I had never described my old home to the set designer, director o producer, this was yet another of the unsettling experiences that filming the Potter libri has brought me.
For no very good reason, I have never been fond of the number four, which has always struck me as a rather hard and unforgiving number, which is why I slapped it on the Dursleys' front door.
da J.K. Rowling
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Please feel free to post them in the commenti area below.
Max:THE HARRY POTTER
Alex:does it really matter?
Oliva:not if your Harry potter-
Alex:blah blah blah I don't care
Mariella:u should he's really famous
(Harry blushed)
Ron:I am Ron wealsly
Hermione:hermione granger
Alex:Alexandra Russo
Mariella:mariella novo
Oliva:oliva jones
Justin:Justin Russo
Max:max russo
Hermione:so guys are from amriecan?
Alex:yuparooine
Barty crouch:no one UNDER TGE AGE OF 17 can not particep
Fred and greoge:THATS RUBSIS
Alex:and I don't care about the torment
Harry:oh nethier do I
Alex:wow
(Harry blushed again)
Ron:Harry has a crush
Hermione:RON
Alex:does it really matter?
Oliva:not if your Harry potter-
Alex:blah blah blah I don't care
Mariella:u should he's really famous
(Harry blushed)
Ron:I am Ron wealsly
Hermione:hermione granger
Alex:Alexandra Russo
Mariella:mariella novo
Oliva:oliva jones
Justin:Justin Russo
Max:max russo
Hermione:so guys are from amriecan?
Alex:yuparooine
Barty crouch:no one UNDER TGE AGE OF 17 can not particep
Fred and greoge:THATS RUBSIS
Alex:and I don't care about the torment
Harry:oh nethier do I
Alex:wow
(Harry blushed again)
Ron:Harry has a crush
Hermione:RON
This is my first story here I hope te like it.
What would happen if just one più person, just one, was in the popolare seires Harry Potter? Would the story change altogether? would some people live that died in the movie? would harry find out things that he found out to late? Would voldemort be weaker, stronger, o his streangth would be the same? Well I'm here to tell te da giving draco a sister named amila. da doing this I hope to continue the story of harry potter a little bit longer because as J.K. Rowling detto no story lives unless somone wants to here it. But hogwarts will always be there to welcome te home. I hope te enjoy and plz commento on this idea.
What would happen if just one più person, just one, was in the popolare seires Harry Potter? Would the story change altogether? would some people live that died in the movie? would harry find out things that he found out to late? Would voldemort be weaker, stronger, o his streangth would be the same? Well I'm here to tell te da giving draco a sister named amila. da doing this I hope to continue the story of harry potter a little bit longer because as J.K. Rowling detto no story lives unless somone wants to here it. But hogwarts will always be there to welcome te home. I hope te enjoy and plz commento on this idea.