Assyrians still exist

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 99506

Sea Change wrote:
> Perhaps Uncle Algie is more progressive than we think.  In real
life,
> smack dab in the center of California is a city called Ceres, and a
> decently large proportion of the people living there call themselves
> Assyrian. They think they've still got a homeland and are probably
> interested in the current events in Iraq.  It's not much of a
stretch
> for me to suppose in the Wizarding world this feeling is much
stronger.
<snip>

And there is also the town of Assyria, Barry County, Michigan
(somewhere near Kalamazoo), whose population of 1,912 could rightly
claim to be Assyrians too.  It could be an obscure way of putting more
American stuff in canon (why do I doubt that?). However, I suspect
that JKR was in fact referring to the "original" region of the
historical Assyria.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb