[HPforGrownups] Re: Durmstrang (was: Focaccia and Harry Potter

[mlleelizabeth at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 900

In a message dated 9/3/2000 12:16:52 PM CST, catlady at wicca.net writes:

<< I believe that the locations of the greatest wizarding schools is 
 less related to the current location of Muggle national borders than 
 to the location of said Muggle borders 1000 years ago when the 
 schools were founded. Okay, I really am thinking less than 1000 
 years when I suggest Beauxbatons as the school of the Bourbon 
 Empire (and Mme. Maxime telling Dumbledore that her giant flying 
 horses only drink single-malt whisky is a pun on Bourbon whisky) 
 and Durmstrang as the school of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 
 
  >>

JKR seems to have numerous historical themes running through her books!  
During my last round of re-reading I concentrated on picking out references 
to the wars of the roses! <g>  Thanks for alerting me to this theme!

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