Hogwarts/Godric's Hollow Location

Sat Mar 17 06:58:43 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 14510

One weekend a young girl was incredibly bored so she got out her Harry 
Potter books and decided to find out where places mentioned in these books 
actually were. These are her findings...

HOGWARTS: In Chamber of Secrets Harry and Ron miss the Hogwarts Express and 
therefore decide that they'll steal Ron's Dad's car and FLY to Hogwarts, 
when they get there they meet a VERY angry Snape who tells them about the 
article in the Evening Prophet... One place mentioned was the town of 
Peebles. I looked this up in my atlas and it is very much in Scotland. Also 
the train heads north (we know from compass readings in the car). I believe 
that since there is no mention of the train going around/over a large body 
of water that Hogwarts must be near Edinburgh. This would also make sence 
because JKR was Edinburgh based...

GODRIC'S HOLLOW: Hagrid mentions that baby Harry falls asleep over Bristol. 
It's also known from the adress on the Hogwarts letter that the Dursleys 
live in Surrey... Assuming that Hagrid travelled in a fairly straight line 
it's only possible that Godric's Hollow must be somewhere in south Wales... 
My personal fave area is 'Gwent' and 'Glam' (south and main) because this 
would give baby Harry enough time to settle down by Bristol but wouldn't 
have him awake for ages...

About no characters imediatley giving the impression of being Scottish... 
Can you say McGonagall?

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