Number Four, бирючина, привилегия, привет Drive
J.K. Rowling's thoughts
The name of the улица, уличный where the Dursleys live is a reference to that most suburban plant, the бирючина, привилегия, привет 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 или whining' in British English.
Although I describe the Dursleys' house as big and...
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