Prime Minister's Office, HBP readers only, please |
 Jul 23 2005, 06:54 PM
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Junior Dishwasher at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 601 Joined: 9:59am June 7, 2005 Location: Looking for a new client   |
The Prime Minister's office had some interesting stuff in it!
Did anyone notice that Fudge was dripping on an Axminster carpet at one point? Barty Crounch, Sr. has mentioned that brand as a brand of flying carpet. Why would the Prime Minister have a flying carpet? Anyone? -------------------- RIP Bellatrix.
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Jul 23 2005, 08:54 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 36 Joined: 3:44pm July 20, 2005 |
Hmmm... I didn't notice that. That's interesting. Maybe one of the Ministers (of Magic) bewitched the carpet at one point just in case the Prime Minister got in a bit of trouble or something...? I didn't notice that! Very cool. Definitely not a coincidence.
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Jul 23 2005, 11:56 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 152 Joined: 4:08pm January 28, 2005 Location: Sitting on an axminster carpet wanting it to fly. |
The carpet is a tip of the had to the Edwardian children's author E. Nesbit. (You can see the book on the bookcase in the links section of jkrowling.com) Nesbit wrote several series books involving children. The reference comes from the book The phoenix and the carpet. from the series known as the "Five children books."
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Jul 24 2005, 12:07 AM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 152 Joined: 4:08pm January 28, 2005 Location: Sitting on an axminster carpet wanting it to fly. |
QUOTE(Dumbledore's Attorney @ July 23 2005,16:54 ) The Prime Minister's office had some interesting stuff in it! I once designed a set for the Dickens fair held in San Francisco. We decided to make a parlor represent 10 Downing street. I did a lot of research. The prime minister's office is dominated by the portrait of "Sir Henry Walpole." This portrait is as much part of the office as the number 10. Interesting that Sir Henry was connected to the magical world. :wink: I should note that, when I designed the set, we did not have a portrait of "Sir Henry." The actor playing Gladstone, somehow acquired a portrait an old San Francisco mayor from the prior century. So the mayor's portrait had the distinction of playing a role too. -------------------- Arethusa --
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Jul 24 2005, 04:11 AM
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The Talking Mirror in Room 7 Posts: 1,755 Joined: 10:05pm April 17, 2005 Location: Talking back to the mirror |
QUOTE(Dumbledore's Attorney @ July 23 2005,4:54 pm) The Prime Minister's office had some interesting stuff in it! Did anyone notice that Fudge was dripping on an Axminster carpet at one point? Barty Crounch, Sr. has mentioned that brand as a brand of flying carpet. Why would the Prime Minister have a flying carpet? Anyone? That slid right past me, perhaps in part because I don't like Axminster carpet so don't like to visualize it. I don't see why it can't be correct for the location, a reference to E.Nesbit's stories, and a flying carpet. Perhaps the gift of it from one Minister of Magic to another Prime Minister was not recorded or has been forgotten or filed away - filed away in any ministry means it's unlikely to surface except accidentally. It would be fun to see it used in an emergency. Edited to add: D.A., perhaps Snape could use your services. -------------------- Founding member of A.D.D.S. (Admirers of Dearly Departed/Deliciously Divine Sirius)
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Jul 25 2005, 02:11 PM
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Junior Dishwasher at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 601 Joined: 9:59am June 7, 2005 Location: Looking for a new client |
QUOTE It would be fun to see it used in an emergency. Yes, it would! Unless LV knew, and dragged the PM off... But carpets are banned...Does the PM have a broom cupboard? -------------------- RIP Bellatrix.
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Jul 25 2005, 05:37 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 63 Joined: 10:53pm July 22, 2005 Location: Mississippi |
hmm interesting well if the carpets are banned now a minister must have given it to the pm as a gift like way before or something... I dunno...
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Aug 5 2005, 11:54 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 65 Joined: 8:11pm August 5, 2005 Location: california |
hmm, it would be interesting if he did actually have magical brooms in the broom cupboard
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Aug 7 2005, 11:09 AM
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Shopping for a New Firebolt Posts: 800 Joined: 6:51am August 2, 2005 Location: England, Peterborough |
Flying carpets might be banned now but they probably weren't always. i reckon they did use it in emergencies.
Besides you can't walk in to the prime ministers office and tell him to get rid of it because they are against wizarding law. i doubt he could care less. -------------------- Then why," asked Snape "does it have the name "Roonil Wazlib"written inside the front cover?"
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Sep 14 2005, 10:58 PM
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Monster Book Stacker Posts: 393 Joined: 5:23pm September 3, 2005 Location: Attempting to convince the Monster Books to attack Snape but not me. |
According to the Lexicon, Axminsters are carpets made in a British town called Axminster. I think equating Crouch's reference with a "brand" is like thinking all Ford Anglias have invisibility boosters. While it is possible that this particular one is enchanted, I would think Crouch would have mentioned it during one of his visits: "Oh, by the way, that carpet there can fly; if the Death Eaters come for you just tell it to take you out..."
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