Number Four, 쥐똥 나무속의 식물, 바비큐, privet Drive
J.K. Rowling's thoughts
The name of the 거리 where the Dursleys live is a reference to that most suburban plant, the 쥐똥 나무속의 식물, 바비큐, 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 또는 whining' in British English.
Although I describe the Dursleys' house as big and...
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