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Dec 7 '11

The Durmstrang Institute is a wizarding school. It is located in the northernmost regions of either Sweden or Norway.

How come all the Durmstrang people have vaguely slavic names, accents & appearances and are portrayed as dark gloomy Rasputin types

How does Sweden or Norway fit into the equation

What

37 notes Tags: harry potter geography what

  1. aurora-foxglove reblogged this from maariamph
  2. fossekall said: Couldn’t russians theoretically be crossing through Sápmi? I really wish we’d got to see more of the hp world, not just hogwarts
  3. esalaka reblogged this from maariamph and added:
    How about a little east of Finland? The western parts of Russia extend pretty far into the north.
  4. lasso0ftruth reblogged this from piginawig and added:
    Well that’s just the school’s location, it is a private school that only allows pure bloods so it probably just has to...
  5. piginawig reblogged this from andrejpejics and added:
    They say Bulgaria in the movie, the actor in Balkan, Kakaroff is obviously a slavic sounding name and the name...
  6. andrejpejics reblogged this from maariamph and added:
    I think it said Bulgaria in the movie…?
  7. chrc reblogged this from maariamph and added:
    Romania, anyone? Honestly, they have NOTHING in common with Scandinavia, not even Finland. You’d be hard-pressed to find...
  8. skeppsbrott reblogged this from maariamph and added:
    Nu but they’re closer to them. If Durmstrang is in any of the nordic countries it would be Finland.
  9. rikiseriku said: I imagined it more like near Siberiain in Russia close to Finland, but, Sweden, really, lol. Maybe the school is in Sweden or Norway, but most of the Students are from Russia or something idk
  10. leppu said: wow nope they ever said where the school is located? I always imagined it would be somewhere near the Ural mountains or something
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