GODRIC'S HOLLOW

'Godric's Hollow' is a fictional village in the ''Harry Potter'' series.^[1] With Hogsmeade established as the only remaining all-magical community in Britain,^[2] Godric's Hollow has a Muggle population.^[3]

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Godric's Hollow was the final hiding place of James and Lily Potter prior to being murdered by Lord Voldemort on 31 October 1981.^[4] It was at this same time that their son, Harry, was left with his lightning bolt-shaped scar.
Godric's Hollow was the home of James Potter's family, and the home of long-dead Hogwarts founder Godric Gryffindor.^[3] At the end of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', Harry says he plans to visit the village and his parents' gravesites after attending Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding at The Burrow during the summer of the seventh book.^[6]. This takes place during the final book, though it turns out to be a trap, and Harry only just escapes Lord Voldemort. Godric's Hollow's cemetery is the resting place for many personalities, the most famous being Ignotus Peverell, Lily & James Potter and Kendra & Ariana Dumbledore.
J. K. Rowling was questioned in an interview for CBBC ''Newsround'' and implicitly confirmed the connection between Godric's Hollow and Godric Gryffindor.^[7]
In ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', it is confirmed that the village was in fact named after Godric Gryffindor, one of the noted founders of Hogwarts.
As for the village's exact location, there was speculation that Godric's Hollow is somewhere in Wales because when carrying baby Harry from Godric's Hollow to Little Whinging, Surrey, Rubeus Hagrid flew over Bristol — which is near the border between England and Wales. As Rowling was born and lived around the Bristol area, later moving to Chepstow, Wales, it is a possibility that Godric's Hollow could in fact be based on one of the locations she grew up in, perhaps Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire or Tutshill in the Forest of Dean. The references to this area of the United Kingdom in the books make them all a possibility. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Godric's Hollow is stated as being "the West Country village", confirming it to be in the West Country of England.
Bowman Wright, the inventor of the Golden Snitch, was once an inhabitant of Godric's Hollow, as were Albus Dumbledore and his family, and Bathilda Bagshot, a notable historian.

References

1. Section: F.A.Q.
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, , J. K., Rowling, Scholastic, , ISBN 0-439-13636-9
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, , J. K., Rowling, Bloomsbury, , ISBN 0-747-59105-9
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, , J. K., Rowling, Scholastic, , ISBN 0-590-35342-X
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, , J. K., Rowling, Bloomsbury, , ISBN 0-747-59105-9
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, , J. K., Rowling, Scholastic, , ISBN 0-439-78596-0
7. JK interview Part 4 - questions and queries