further confirmation that Hogwarts is in Scotland

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 83923

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wrote:
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CArin:> My apologies if this has been pointed out before; I've done a 
pretty thorough search 
> and there still seems to be the faintest, lingering doubt about 
this in the Fantastic 
> Posts sections on Geography and Hogwarts.
> 
> I've just (finally) acquired the Schoolbooks, and I note that in 
FBAWTFT, p. 2 (US ed.), 
> at the end of the entry for Acromantula, the statement "Rumours 
that a colony of 
> Acromantula has been established in Scotland are unconfirmed" has 
been annotated 
> in a familiar hand, "confirmed by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley."


Geoff:
Strangely, my mind went back to this a week or so ago when I was re-
reading COS.

When the thread on Hogwarts was running a couple of months ago, I 
missed the following piece -

Snape with the Daily Prophet when Ron and Harry reach Hogwarts.....

"He began to read aloud. 'Two Muggles in London, convinced they saw 
an old car flying over the POst Office tower... at noon in Norfolk, 
Mrs.Hetty Bayliss while hanging out her washing...... Mr.Angus Fleet 
of Peebles, reported to police....."

For non-UK readers, Norfolk is a county on the east coast of the UK - 
It's a bit more to the east than the Hogwarts Express would take 
using the line out of Kings Cross. Peebles is a town just south of 
Edinburgh. We don't know where precisly in Norfolk Hetty was, but if 
you draw a line from the Norfolk area to Peebles and extrapolate it 
at its northern end, you are heading into the West Highlands. 
Certainly in the film, one of the well known locations was the 
Glenfinnan viaduct which is on the West Highland line from Fort 
William to Mallaig.

Geoff