Northend

The rebus shows a compass indicating NORTH and again the album The Doors, track 11, The END  [REB19].

The name James Crossley is on the door. He was �Hunter� in the TV series Gladiators [NOR1].

The quotation beginning �Hello, the drawing-room of Lady Muldoon�s country residence� (actually this is two different quotations spliced together) is from Tom Stoppard�s play The Real Inspector Hound [NOR2].

To interpret the books, you need to look up the 3-digit Dewey Decimal Code for each subject shown [NOR3]. These can be found on http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/dewey.html and there is a hotspot link to this on the book spine reading �151� (this Dewey Code is listed as �Not assigned or no longer used� so was just put in as itself). Conflating all the numbers together yields:

020114202119160501110914071605151612051209220914071301091412250914030116051618152209140305

(some of the numbers are ambiguous, just to make things harder). If you now take this two digits at a time, it can be read as letters of the alphabet to spell �Bantu-speaking people living mainly in Cape Province�, who are the XHOSA [NOR4].

The page of �alchemy� is decoded using the table of elements, as was a code in the 1986 Hunt. In this case, you should ignore Dalton�s symbols round the outside and interpret the numbers as the atomic number of various elements, replacing each one by its symbol. Some letters couldn�t be bent into this code so just appear as themselves. The result is �Nymphadora Tonks uses this to cure Harry�s broken nose�. This is a reference to an incident in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince where the Auror Tonks uses the spell EPISKEY, whose name derives from the Greek episkevi meaning �repair�, to fix Harry�s broken nose [NOR5].

The chap in the hat is George Fox, founder of the Quakers (�my voice quaking��). He was imprisoned many times, but in 1674 it was in WORCESTER [NOR6].

Passwords and Directions

(a) XHOSA to get to Christmas Common
(b) EPISKEY to get to Turville
(c) WORCESTER to get to Turville Heath