Durmstrang. Voldemort and the Scholomance

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 167866

I was rereading _Dracula,_ and it mentioned that Count Dracula, when alive, 
had attended something called the "Scholomance."  Wikipedia says that it's a 
legendary school of dark magic, near Sibiu in Romania, attended by ten 
scholars at a time, and that when nine of them are released on the world, 
the Devil takes the tenth scholar as his due to serve as his adjutant.

I wonder if JKR was thinking of this legendary school when she created 
Durmstrang?  It is said to be situated on a lake, high in the 
mountains---and I don't know how cold Romania gets in the winter.  Except 
for Durmstrang being said to be farther north, it does strike me as 
reminiscent of Viktor Krum's school.

Or, if that theory doesn't appeal, could Voldemort have attended after 
leaving Hogwarts?  It does sound like a Muggle distorted version of an 
advanced Dark Arts-only school that only lets in a few of the most dedicated 
Dark Artists at a time.  And if he did attend---what happened to his 
schoolmates?