(Reply) [Full Metal Wheelbarrow]

One of the estate agents in the village has just stuck a handwritten letter through our door, saying that a person I've never heard of has asked them to arrange access to number 18 [our street] for a "mandatory valuation".

This puzzles me, for several reasons, but mostly because
there *is* no number 18 - there are 13 houses in the court, the last of which is number 14, presumably to placate those of a superstitious bent.

I am *so* tempted to tell them that if they really want to get into number 18 they need to speak to a Mr Potter over at Grimmauld Place.....