Hogwarts Location was American weather...was British weather

[EQMJ at aol.com]

   Chiming in from Minnesota, we're in the middle of a snow storm that has 
deposited about two feet of the fluffy white stuff in the last week.  I studied 
abroad in Glasgow for six months during my undergraduate degree and I was torn 
the entire time between loving the mild temperatures and feeling a little 
weirded out and deprived of "real winter" by the perpetual greenery around me and 
total lack of below 0F temps.  The weather report didn't even give the 
wind-chill - I was entirely out of my element.
   In a perhaps misguided effort to return this to HP, at the risk of 
bringing up a topic that's been done to death, am I correct in assuming that Hogwarts 
would be in Scotland?  I'm largely basing this assumption on movie evidence - 
the train in their second year is clearly going over the Glenfinnan Aqueduct 
headed north and there seems to be a considerable amount of snow in the 
preview for the third film.  While I was in Glasgow it snowed only once and that 
consisted of a light sprinkle that was gone by the afternoon.  I was in a more 
serious snowstorm while visiting Edinburgh, but again that snow was gone in a 
day.  It wasn't until I traveled much further north that I saw the kind of 
long-term accumulation that I'm more familiar with.  What kind of geographical 
evidence was given in the books?

Equanimity
EQMJ at aol.com

In a message dated 2/2/2004 2:00:32 PM Central Standard Time, 
mphunt at sprintmail.com writes:
I also know (from friends and relatives) that 
Washington, Minnesota, Utah, Kentucky and New Hampshire have some fun 
weather, too.


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