[HPforGrownups] Britain, Greater or Lesser

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49547

In a message dated 10/01/2003 03:29:44 Eastern Standard Time, 
honoriagranger at yahoo.com writes:


> Jazmyn posted:I
> 
> >Saying Scotland ia a part of Britain is like saying Wales is Britain
> >too.  One assumes that 'Britain' in the books refers to just Britain 
> >and not all of Great Britain, or it would state 'Great' Britain.
> >I'm just referring to what my maps say the country (and parts 
> >thereof)are called.
> >
> >
> I recall from my reading in Celtic legends that in pre-medieval 
> times, Brittany (one of the six Celtic nations) was also known 
> as "Less Britain" or "Britain the Less", as opposed to Britain 
> itself, which was "Great" Britain (the whole island, not just 
> England; Scotland and Wales and England itself at that time being 
> divided into many small kingdoms and principalities). 
> It just means, of course, Big Britain and Small Britain...
> 

Sadly <weg> to the dismay of a good number of us Scots, I truly believe JKR 
is referring to Britain as a whole. Logically, the duration of the trip from 
London, platform 9and3/4, to Hogwarts, although not actually named in hours, 
but rather in shifts of skylines and light to dark, I have always assumed 
that Hogwarts was in Scotland.... (naturally that is where the best wizarding 
school in Britain would be located, she says with great haughtiness)

But, again, I am extremely BIASED! <winkwinknudgenudge>

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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