Albania

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 87963

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> Hi all. Can anyone think of a good reason why LV would choose 
> Albania as his hideout, bot before SS and between then and GoF? I 
> can't think of any good connotations for magical stuff that's 
> happening there, or even why Bertha Jorkins would want to travel 
> there (as it is such war torn country). Any ideas why this is such 
a 
> good hideout? Geography perhaps? 
> Meri

Ginger half-answers:

I have no idea as to why LV would choose it for a hangout, but, 
according to Bagman, Bertha was there to see her second cousin.  He 
says on pp. 446-7 GoF (US hardcover) that she arrived there safely, 
but then went south to visit an aunt and vanished.  We know she ran 
into Peter at a roadside inn.  

That part has always made me wonder-why didn't she apparate straight 
from one relative to the other?  Was she flying?  Can she apparate?  
How far south does this aunt live?  Is it in Albania?  Or in another 
country more southernly?  Is the inn Muggle or Magical?  My list goes 
on.

I have seen some discussion as to why LV chose Albania, so I'll leave 
that to the more learned among us.  I believe it was Steve (bboy_mn) 
who had a theory. This could be interesting.

Ginger, still shaking off yesterday's festivities