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Little Whinging

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Little Whinging
Location information
Location

Surrey, England

Permanent Resident(s)
Behind the scenes
First appearance

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Latest appearance

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Little Whinging is a town in the English county of Surrey. Little Whinging is the home of Harry Potter, the Dursleys, and Arabella Figg[1]. Dementors attacked Harry Potter and his cousin here in 1995[2].

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[edit] Known streets

Streets in this town are Wisteria Walk, Magnolia Crescent, Magnolia Road, and Privet Drive, where the Dursleys' house is located.

[edit] Etymology

"Whinging" is another spelling of whining, an activity Dudley Dursley particularly enjoys.

[edit] Behind the scenes

[edit] Little Whinging's location within Surrey

Little Whinging in 1991

Since Rubeus Hagrid farewelled Harry Potter from LondonPaddington after taking him shopping at Diagon Alley, Harry Potter must have taken a rail service provided by First Great Western; thus, it can be inferred that Little Whinging is in the northern part of Surrey, north of Staines (since the First Great Western services don't serve Surrey, with the exception of the Reading - Gatwick Airport line, which does not serve Paddington), somewhere between Hayes & Harlington and Slough (West Drayton, Iver or Langley); thus, Harry must've taken a London commuter rail service bound for Reading and Oxford or Reading only (most probably Reading only as it was evening peak when trains to Oxford are fast West Drayton - Slough), as the regional services only call at Slough for boarding, (Intercity services don't stop there at all), and Hayes & Harlington, West Drayton, Iver and Langley are solely served by commuter trains. If Little Whinging were elsewhere within Surrey, it would have been more efficient, using Muggle public transport, to leave London by South West Trains commuter rail from London Waterloo, or Southern commuter rail from London Victoria (in real life however, SWT would have been more efficient to the northern tip of Surrey as well, since the London suburban rail route to Windsor & Eton Riverside has a station in Wraysbury, just on the Surrey - Berkshire border). However, FGW did not exist in 1991, so it should be British Rail, most likely the sub-company of Network SouthEast.

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  2. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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