Hermione, Krum, and Durmstrang

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 87560

Speaking of Durmstrang:

I observe in GoF that the large amount of information we get about 
Durmstrang comes either directly or indirectly from Hermione. Either it's 
what Krum tells her, or it's what she has read (I don't know where; possibly 
as a footnote to *Hogwarts: A History?*).

She also tells the others that the exact location of Durmstrang is unknown.

My opinion of the Hermione/Krum relationship is that it's not really a 
romance but more a combination of a) plain ordinary friendship (where is it 
engraved in stone that Hermione can't have friends of a different sex other 
than Ron and Harry?), b) appreciation of the status in having someone like 
Krum interested in her, and c) getting on Ron's nerves.

But I wonder if Hermione doesn't suspect (especially after Karkaroff's 
disappearance) that it might be important to know *exactly* where Durmstrang 
is -- and that's why she's spending so much time on correspondence with 
Krum?  If anyone can figure out its location from clues she gets out of 
Krum, Hermione can.

When the day comes that someone's been kidnapped, or something's missing 
that they really need, or some other reason comes up and they really need to 
get to Durmstrang, Hermione may be the one who can produce the clues to its 
location -- if not the location itself.


Janet Anderson

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