Durmstrang (was: Focaccia and Harry Potter

[Jim Hohman]

No: HPFGUIDX 901

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brooks R" <brooksar at i...> wrote:
> --- 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

Add my voice to Brooks.  I have a good friend who grew up in 
Copenhagen, Denmark.  She always talked about going to grammer school 
in the dark and coming home in the dark.  It didn't get light until 
ten in the moarning and got dark again at three in the afternoon.  
That isn't much daylight IMHO.   As is, I find the short days in the 
middle of winter here in the outskirts of NYC very depressing.  

Jim