Eastern European HBP? (was Re: HBP Poll)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pcaehill2" <pcaehill2 at s...> wrote:
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> And a (surely not final) speculation: Perhaps the HBP is one of 
these slavic royal types, hobnobbing with the purebloods but not one 
with them in his sympathies?  I also tend towards a European or East 
European prince, since OoP pointed out the need for the houses to 
stand together, and GoF (maybe indirectly) the need  for
"international magical cooperation" to defeat LV.
Pam (loving all this digression)



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I'm of the "Lupin as HBP" persuasion myself.  

However, I do agree that whoever the HBP turns out to be, it's a good
possibility that his roots could  be in Eastern Europe.   We know: 

[1] Victor Krum's place on the Bulgarian Quidditch team
[2] Krum and Karkaroff's Eastern European accents
[3] Voldemort's exile to Albania
[4] Prague was *the* alchemical hotspot of the 16th century (it was
once known as "Magic Prague"), and alchemy has been shown to play a
huge role in both the HP story and story structure. (Because of this,
I'd guess that Durmstrang's secret location *is* Prague.)

So it seems a pretty good guess to me that JKR intends to make this
area of the world a significant one to the Wizarding World of  Books 6
& 7.

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