Durmstrang's location

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 31980

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ftah3" <ftah3 at y...> wrote:
> heathernmoore wrote:

> Maybe it's in Siberia.  :-P

You know, I sort of like that idea. Karkaroff lost his job as a Soviet 
workcamp guard, so he became a Death Eater, and when that didn't work 
went back to the Gulag and opened up a school in that place where 
Solzhenitsyn set, "A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich." I'm 
beginning to feel sympathy for Viktor (for the first time ever.)

> 
> By the way, has anyone commented on the way that Durmstrang is a 
sort 
> of backwards version of "Sturm und drang"?  On one hand, the 18th 
> century German romantic literary movement of that name was basically 
> about "the impulsive man struggling against conventional society," 
> which is similar to Durmstrang teaching the Dark Arts while other 
> schools teach at most defense against them.  

Viktor strikes me as one of those 18th century literary heroes: 
brooding, passionate, jealous etc. 

Eileen