Focaccia and Harry Potter

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 879

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, summers.65 at o... wrote:
> 
> I think that the wizarding world must use the same political
> boundaries that Muggles use, or else they wouldn't be talking about
> England and Scotland and Ireland.

Those could be language-region boundaries English and Scots Gaelic 
and Irish Gaelic. Do you think the wizarding boundaries change 
whenever the Muggle boundaries do? England and Scotland were 
separate countries, often at war, until James I added the English 
throne to the Scotch throne he already had in 1603, and I'm not 
sure when Great Britain conquered Ireland but I remember that neither 
John Lackland's nor Elizabeth I's nor Cromwell's conquests of Ireland 
lasted very long. But at the beginning of this century, the whole 
island of Ireland belonged to the United Kingdom, but then part of 
the island became independent as the Republic of Ireland. Did the 
wizards change their country every time the Muggles play those 
games?