
Being a Stranger: Diagon Alley (Book 1, Chapter 5)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
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Paddington Station, London
Paddington is one of the largest train stations in london, and takes you on trains west. The fact that it's an escalator reminds me that they were stuck on an escalator that didn't work. They had to walk up and later that wasn't working, before they got to digon alley. And so there's this sense of movement for harry which i love. There's a lot of symbolic overcoming of strangeness into familiarity. Oh, my gush. In this whole senense, it's just a metaphor rigt. I'm getting allegory bombs going off in my head right now.
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