where are Lake, Forbidden Forest, etc?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 23855

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:

> Well, you could try the Wizard's Atlas: Atlas of Hogwarts at
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/atlas.html

Grumble, grumble... if the lake is at the bottom of cliffs and the 
castle is at their top (which is, yes, from canon), then how are 
people are always taking litle strolls around the lake? Climbing 
down the cliffs to the lake and up again afterwards wouldn't be 
very relaxing!

How do we know that the railway track is between the school and 
the village? I guess it CAN be: the railway track was between 
my college and the shopping street, and we students always 
walked right over it (looking out for trains first, of course, as 
trains whooshed by fairly often, I think mostly full of coal) 
regardless of how many signs and speeches kept telling us not to 
cross the tracks except at --- actually, I don't remember where the 
supposedly safe place to cross those tracks was. I suppose I'm just 
being American to think that if the students have to cross the railway 
track for their Hogsmeade outings, that breakfast of each outing day 
(and dinner of the night before) would include an announcement from 
someone at the Head Table to be careful when crossing the track.