Durmstrang

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 152649

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Alan Wilson" <bawilson at ...> wrote:
>
> "Strang und Durm" means in German 'storm and strife' and refers to a  late
> 18th/early 19th C. movement in literature, art, and drama (and, to a lesser
> extent music) the dwelled on strong, towering emotions.  Think 'Sorrows of Young
> Werther', Beethoven's 'Fidelio', etc.
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Geoff:
If you will permit me to correct your message, the German is "Sturm und Drang".

As I explained in message 152553, Jo Rowling has spoonerised this to get Durmstrang.