slytherin`s school-HOGWARTS

[Susan Fox-Davis]

No: HPFGUIDX 57396

 Anne takes a cozy seat ans writes:

>Do I recall accurately, that Salazar Slytherin originated his own
>wizard- school, after he and the other 3 founders of Hogwarts
>diverged too harshly from each other's views?
>Please, bear with me if I'm inaccurate and do the same if I'm not:

>a- Where was that school?
>b- Who attended it?
>c- Was it comparable to those Hitler- Jugend- ( Hitler Youth)
>schools only for errr Death Eaters?
>d- Does it still exist? (I know Rowling said NO regarding other
>wizard schools, still!)

I have a sneaking notion that it is none other than Durmstrang,
home of sturm und drang, whose headmaster is a Death Eater after all.
Oh, he was exonerated but the way he disappeared at the end of
GoF tells all, does it not?  [And whom and what were they teaching there

before and during the Second World War?  I shudder to think.]

>.annie who is in immense need for volume 5 and mint- iceand whose
>English enjoys its time without her under palms (lucky it is!) ever
>since she's freed of a *very* severe English- teacher (she cracked
>*hazelnuts* with her *teeth*, and I'm quite sure she swallowed the
>chewed shell as well! She was weird, but- I have to acknowledge-
>perfectly so)

She sounds like Madame.  Your teacher would not be 8 feet tall, would
she?

>Besides: any ideas what the 4 founders had in mind, when they named
>their school "Hogwarts"? It sounds sosodumbledory.

But very typically English.

There are a lot of English place names that sound really quirky and
silly
but boast noble Saxon roots.  If I had to guess, I would say that it
comes from
Anglo-Saxon "Haleg" [as in "Hogmany," the Scots dialect term for the
Christmas/New Year season, Haleg Monath "Holy Month")
plus "ward" meaning, to guard or protect.  This was the place where
the four founders intended to keep and protect the special young ones.

Just a guess, your Saxon is as good as mine, probably better.

Susan Fox-Davis
Los Angeles, California