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Number Four, खुद के बारे में, निजी, privet Drive

J.K. Rowling's thoughts

The name of the सड़क, स्ट्रीट where the Dursleys live is a reference to that most suburban plant, the खुद के बारे में, निजी, privet 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 या whining' in British English.

Although I describe the Dursleys' house as big and...