[HPforGrownups] Re: Where do the wizards live?

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 22913



> -----Original Message-----
> From: rcraigharman at hotmail.com [mailto:rcraigharman at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:14 AM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Where do the wizards live?
> 
> 
> Real-To:  rcraigharman at hotmail.com
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
> > "Rachelle Elliott" <relliott at j...> wrote:
> > 
> > >In GoF (Bagman and Crouch Chapter), Mr. Crouch stated that he has
> > >been very busy organizing portkeys across 5 continents.  Well,
> > >there are 7 continents total in the world.  What two continents
> > >are wizard free or not invited to The Quidditch World Cup?  I was
> > >thinking Antarctica (for sure) and ?????
> > 
> 
> And, of course, the fact that Crouch was organizing portkeys across
> 5 continents does not imply that the wizarding world only extends
> to five continents.  **It's quite possible that a continent simply
> didn't have any qualifying Quidditch teams.**
> 

But wizards who lived or were residing there might still have wanted to go.

I actually wonder if it's possible to Portkey from the South Seas (including
Australia) to the UK. In QTTA< JKR says that one cannot apparate
transcontinentally - perhaps portkeys have a larger range, but not an
absolute one. It might've been the case that wizards & witches from
Australia had to get to Asia somehow, then portkey from there, thus avoiding
the need to arrange portkeys on that continent.