[HPforGrownups] Re: Beauxbatons) (was LONG: School-locations, mostly Durmstrang

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 6008



Rita Winston wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Christian Stub <rhodhry at y...>
> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, we are not told too much about the
> > location of Beauxbatons, though the impression seems
> > to be given of a palace like to the royal palaces in
> > the Loire-valley (decorated tastefully, without
> > stuffed k-niggets and poltergeists).  I will assume it
> > to be in a relatively mild area, in a chateau akin to
> > Chambord or Azay le Rideau (the ultimate Romantic
> > Fairytale palaces).
>
> At the time that we were discussing the location of Durmstrang,
> some people on some list co-incidentally read a book about Andorra,
> which totally convinced them that Beauxbatons is in Andorra.
>

And the fact that the Pyrenees, which are in Andorra, have historically been
known as "the magic mountains" (and it was a feudal state until 1993, giving
a lot of leeway for a magical castle to hide)