HPfG-FAQ: Location of Durmstrang

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No: HPFGUIDX 33760

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "morsethanatos" <morsethanatos at y...> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I started reading the FAQ and found that Latvia is mentioned
> as a possible location. I came from Latvia when I was small,
> and just got done interrogating my grandfather about it.
> Latvia has many many beautiful lakes. It is certainly cold
> enough in the winter and daylight would generally last from 8
> AM to about 5 or 4 PM. Unfortunately there is not a mountain
> anywhere. There are hills and some elevated areas but no
> mountains. 
> 
> Morsethanatos.

That is known, but not all the FAQs are in a similar state of 
update.  I have myself postulated locations in Scandinavia or on the 
Kola peninsula (at the inner end of the Kandalaksa bay), and JKR has 
since that time (at a book-reading in Glasgow some eight months ago, 
IIRC, stated the location to probably been in the far North of Sweden 
or Norway.

Best regards
Christian Stubø
Not in any way associated with the FAQ-team, but with a long-standing 
membership on HPfGU.