[HPforGrownups] Re: Focaccia and Harry Potter

[summers.65 at osu.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 817


>> That's well and good but I don't buy it. There HAS to be more
>> schools than just the three. (snip) Of course I can't see the Irish
>> going to Hogwarts either....
>
>Well, JKR never told us that there isn't an Italian school and an
>Iberian school and a Greek school and a Russian school .... she just
>told us that Hogwarts is THE school for UK and Ireland, and I can't
>see that any more than you can. Even if Hogwarts was big enough and
>had enough students with Irish names, if that fine Irish National
>Team had gone to Hogwarts, someone would have mentioned them.
>
I had great fun inventing names for American wizarding schools for PoU...I
decided that there should be three in a country as large as the one in
which I now sit.

Lori


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