What's in a Name?

[Brooke]

No: HPFGUIDX 60051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kira November" <Kira1119 at H...> 
wrote:
> I am reading 'In Search of Zarathustra' in which the author traces 
the 
> influence of the ancient religion Zoroastrianism on other religions 
ancient 
> and modern.  In a section on the Bulgarian Empire (who knew there 
was one, 
> raise your hands!) I came across this:
> 
> "Yet it is sometimes possible to read between the lines of their 
bare 
> accounts and imagine how it must have been, say, on the day in 814 
when the 
> fearsome Khan Krum, after a whole year of preparation, led a huge 
army south 
> from his territory in Thrace to besiege Constantinople."
> 
> and this:
> 
> "But Krum has defeated three Roman emperors in succession on the 
> battlefield, and drunk wine from the silver-lined skull of 
Nicephorus, the 
> last of them."
> 
> 
> Kira November
> who likes to go eclectic

Very interesting! Thanks for putting that out there... I doubt 
whether anyone else would have run across that unless they were 
studying the exact same thing.  And clearly the Durmstrang lot are 
being well educated (Defense Against?) the Dark Arts, plus with shady 
Karkaroff being their headmaster... Krum is a very likely candidate 
to become a young death eater.  Makes me scared about the future of 
Hermione's friendship/ties with him.  If Krum turns nasty, Hermione 
better watch out!  

Brooke
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