Geography (was Lily Evans)

[bob.mornington at wanadoo.fr]

No: HPFGUIDX 10812

> Dai wrote:
>  
> > In which case Godrics Hollow is not necessarily in South Wales as 
> has 
> > previously been supposed by some as Hagrid flew over Bristol on 
his 
> > way to Surrey. Wherever Harry was taken in the interim was in 
South 
> > Wales though.
> 
> JKR does seem intent on confounding (or confunding) our attempts to 
> place most of HP geographically, however.  Someone asked her 
whether 
> Azkaban was off the southern coast, since Sirius stops in Surrey on 
> the way from Azkaban to Hogwarts, and she said no.  (I picture it 
> quite a ways out in the North Sea, myself.  I'm sure those wizards 
are 
> a lot smarter than whoever put Alcatraz within swimming distance of 
> San Francisco.  Though Alcatraz, too, had Dementors as well as 
walls 
> and water . . .)
> 
> Amy Z
> 
I thought Azkaban was Azerbaijan the Azerbaijan republic, a 
constituent republic of the USSR, lying between the Black and Caspian 
Seas and containing the Baku oilfields. Until the early 19th c. it 
formed part of Persia; pop. (est. 1987) 6,811,000; capital, Baku.