Little Whinging Harry Potter. We would call the place Little Whining. Let me know what you think.
Alison Lurie noted in the New York Review of Books that Little Whingings name is a joke that American readers may not get. I build Little Whinging. There may be a red herring.
Number 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging is the Dursleys home in which Harry lives with his aunt Petunia uncle Vernon and cousin Dudley.
Little Whinging was the name of the Muggle town in Surrey that Vernon and Petunia Dursley Dudley Dursley Harry Potter and Arabella Figg lived. Most of the distances used are fairly certain and the actual orientation. This individual was a British Muggle man who worked as a milkman in the area of Little Whinging in Surrey England1 In the summer of 1991 he was very confused when he had to deliver eggs to Petunia Dursley through the window of 4 Privet Drive after Vernon Dursley had boarded up the cracks around the front and back doors of the house so that nobody could go in or out. Enough to buy a meal and some second-hand science fiction books very thick science fiction books.
