Durmstrang (was: Focaccia and Harry Potter

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 886

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:

> 
> Durmstrang can't be in Bulgaria and can't even be in the southern 
> half of Norway, according to Tigerlily from Norway who was in one
of 
> these e-mail-lists and said that the shortness of daylight of 
> Durmstrang as described by Krum was further north than where she 
> lives in Norway.


Actually i don't think that is a clear disproval.  Someone who grew
up 
in southern Norway would think the night lengths in winter she was
used 
to, were perfectly normal.  But someone who grew up in Bulgaria would 
think that even southern Norway's winter nights were depressingly
long.
Bulgaria is about the same latitude as New York City, but Southern 
Norway is at the same latitude as the southern Alaska or the middle
of 
Hudson's Bay or the south tip of Greenland.

-Brooks