*He chooses the safest topic--his "homeland" is technically England, in the general sense, and he feels he is not lying if he omits any discussion of Hogwarts.*

My house was in a poor and dying town in England. It had been prosperous at one time but businesses began to leave for larger cities where the trade was better, and most of the buildings and houses began to fall into disrepair.

*He finds it easy enough to talk about his house; Spinner's End was next to nothing to him really. The more important places in his life brought pain, but in a way, Spinner's End almost seemed to belong to someone else.*