Quirrel and Scandinavia?

[arealin]

No: HPFGUIDX 87545


> I still find it very odd that Durmstrang's in Norway or Sweden. 
Both
> the name of the school (German-sounding) and the name of its 
students
> (Slavic-sounding) are very foreign to the Scandinavian language. 
Well
> well...
>
> Berit
>


Maybe the combination of the school name, student names and 
Scandinavia
tidbit is supposed to give us the idea that Durmstrang serves as the
wizarding school for more than one country? It's an interesting 
question,
actually, does every country have a school? Only three competed in 
the
Triwizarding Championship, are they simply the most prestigious ones 
or are
they the only ones in Europe? Personally, I think they are the only 
ones.
Wizarding population looks to be a lot smaller than Russian 
population, I
don't think they would need more than three schools.

The only issue I see with my theory is the language barrier... So 
far, we've
been shown that wizards do not have some magical "universal 
translator,"
which sucks, except for Bill Weasely, who gets to play private tutor 
with
the veelacious Fleur.

Alina.