Hello! Thank you to my 4 lovely reviewers! I hope you haven't given up on me; I have been too busy with real life to even think about this story! Sorry to Mysid, your idea is excellent, but this is the idea that has been running through my head for a while so I'd like to make Snape go to muggle school. I'm sure Dumbledore would be able to sort out the time turner issues, and my personal theory is that when you go back in time with the time turner, your body returns to the age/state that it was at that time. You would still retain all your knowledge but you would appear the correct age for that time. Anyway... time turners are cool:) It would give me many warm fuzzies if you wanted to write a fanfic of my fanfic! Feel free to use any ideas of mine and make them your own! (you could even copy and paste anything you wanted to keep). I'm sure you would be able to do a much better job of it than I would. That also goes for anyone else by the way.
I read an essay that Spinner's End is probably in Manchester. I have never been to Europe and I don't know about the public transport system there (let alone 20 or so years ago when this story is set). I am going to assume that you can/could catch a train to Manchester and it would take about 3 hours from Kings Cross. There was no mention of train stations in Half Blood Prince, so then Snape and Potter are going to take a short bus trip (20min or so) to somewhere near the house. As you can imagine, this does not make James very happy.
After the exceptionally tedious train ride on the Hogwarts Express, the last thing James Potter wanted to do was get on another train for an equally tedious journey to whatever god-forsaken muggle town Snape lived in. All he wanted was a large steak sandwich with chips and gravy, a portkey to his family's summer home and Lily Evans (who had refused to come with him on a date for the last 14 consecutive Hogsmeade weekends – as Sirius reminded him regularly).
The train carriages were similar in design to those of the Hogwarts express, but considerably smellier. James pulled out his newly transfigured trunk and scowled. It now appeared to look like a smart muggle suitcase filled with inconspicuous muggle belongings. Snape's trunk now resembled a grubby, muggle-style backpack, complete with zippered compartments and a sports logo. Snape himself was reading a muggle novel and ignoring his guest completely. James looked out the window into the muggle world. He was yet to have ever met a muggle (he had, of course, met muggleborns but never any of their non-magical family). The muggle world outside the train window looked very different from the pictures in his muggle studies textbook; James thought perhaps this was because muggles were incapable of cleaning spells.
Three hours later, Snape emerged from the world of muggle literature. James was almost glad; even the company of Snivellus was better than no company at all!