Durmstrang

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com,
> ---  "Steve" <bboyminn@> wrote:
> 
> > And, by the way, Giants are in the Ural Mountains of Russia.
> 
> 
> Wow, I never knew that. I thought it was something closer,
> like Alps or Pyrenees :-).
> 
> 
> zanooda
>

bboyminn:

Hagrid mentions Dijon (France), the Polish boarder, and Minsk
(Belorussia). To get to any other mountains from Minsk, you 
have to make a huge change in direction. You have to make a
complete U-turn to get to the Alps, and you have to turn
sharply southwest (a semi-u-turn) to get to the Carpathians
Mountains of Romania and Ukraine, which is were the Dragon
Perserve is. Or, straight ahead to reach the Ural Mountains
of Russia. 

It's hard to find any pictures of the Ural Mountain because,
allegedly, the Russians are hiding a secret Military base
there, and consequently aren't too fond of photographs.
The mountains don't quite seem rugged enough, but none-the-
less, the story is making a Bee-Line directly for them.

Steve/bboyminn