[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Map of Hogwarts drawn by JKR

[Shaun Hately]

On 26 Nov 2004 at 8:56, Steve wrote:

> So, again, my main point is that since we don't know when in the story
> development cycle this map was created, we should be careful about
> considering it absolute truth.

As someone else who tries to map some of the things associated 
around Hogwarts from textual clues, I've already found one 
potential problem with this map matching the text.

In Goblet of Fire, on several occasions, characters are described 
as having walked entirely around the lake - well, there seems to be 
a wall that would make that rather difficult. Characters are also 
described as walking around the forest to a location where the lake 
and castle can no longer be seen - it seems to me that would be 
rather difficult as well, from this map - though I haven't been 
able to check that yet - maybe they had left the boundary of the 
wall.


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