Picture in Need of Backstory

[therealsnape]

Lord S. and I were having a quiet breakfast with tea, Nutella and the newspaper, when he suddenly looked up and said, "Now this is something to show your friends."






Translation:
Title: Rather Strange.

Which cardriver isn't familiar with the situation: the parking slot he or she wants to use - the only free slot in the entire street - is permanently reserved for a doctor, an acupuncturist, or an invalid. Highly annoying!

But in Great-Britain, things can get stranger. Hans van der Vecht found a Witch Parking in Falmouth, Cornwall. The size indicated on the sign suggests that one parks a broom rather than a car here. A joke of a passionate Potter-fan? Or an insult aimed at an old, ugly neighbour?

Those could be explanations. But the cats, whose looks could burn the soul of any passer-by, suggest other possibilities.

Leaving aside the slanderous notion that 'witch = old and ugly', what I'd like to ask the flist is, "Who are those two"?

I've googled 'tabby cat' and it seems that orange varieties are sometimes found. So that might be one answer - and then again, I might be wrong entirely.

Comments

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Well, the cats are both ginger tabbies, and therefore, probably boycats ;) I've always assumed (from the eye markings), that Minerva is a brown tabby.

Isn't Crookshanks a ginger?

Cornwall has a thriving witchcraft tourist industry (the Museum of Witchcraft is in Boscastle, not Falmouth, otherwise I'd have assumed this was the parking for the staff), so such signs are not unusual - and nothing to do with Potter.

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

I think Crookshanks is a ginger, yes. If they're both boys, that's a whole new set of ideas. Crookshanks and a ginger Weasley? Charlie? Good with animals, is Charlie.

I didn't know of the Cornish witch industry - but the idea of staff parking is inspired. Pity it isn't the case.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I have it on good authority that if Charlie were to be a animagus, his form would be a dragon. Nothing less. (To suggest otherwise is apparently blasphemous. ;))

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

My deepest apologies to Charlie. No offense was intended (and I hope none is taken).

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Ah, Charlie's never one for bearing grudges. He just couldn't imagine ever being a cat!