Forest of Dean question

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

> By the way, if Forest of Dean is left alone, will it look as 
> if the forest has a connection to Dean Thomas?


zanooda:

I think this doesn't depend on the language and the translation, but on how much a reader knows about England (I'm not sure that every single American knows about this forest either :-)). If the reader knows what "Forest of Dean" (on whatever language) is, he'll know what Hermione is talking about, and if not - I don't know, it's individual, I guess. I personally knew nothing about Forest of Dean when I read DH, but somehow I didn't think about Dean Thomas at all :-). I didn't know what this place was, but I looked it up later, on the second reading :-).