Durmstrang, Hiding, History, and Triwizard (was Scandinavia)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 88394

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sea Change" wrote:
Ba said: [snipped by Sea Change] "Krum" is that name of an early 
Bulgarian king known for his wisdom and benevolence.  Rarely are 
names in the canon random... 
Fran said:  Also, didn't Krum play on the Bulgarian National 
Quidditch team?...

The Sergeant Majorette (who became a Viktor Krum fan due to her 
addiction to Balkan folk music) says

Wisdom and benevolence?? Not hardly, except in the sense that Vlad 
Dracula is known as a Romanian patriot.

Khan Krum the Terrible is known as the founder of the Bulgarian 
nation, but is chiefly famous for having the skull of an enemy silver 
plated and using it as a goblet to drink human blood.

To be fair, though, it seems that having some sort of grotesque 
cruelty attached to your legend was a political imperative back then 
in that area of the world.

--JDR