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Old 24-August-2003, 07:47 AM
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Default Re: Bad Astronomy in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoen

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Originally Posted by Simmo
...their exams include an astronomy practical which takes place at night and involves identifying ... the positions of various celestial objects on a star chart and here's the rub; Hogwarts School is about a day's journey by train north of London, putting it somewhere in Northern Scotland. It barely gets dark up there in June...
Not an expert here but isn't Hogwarts kind of located as you say it should be, but in another dimension? After all, one has to slip through a brick wall at the train station and catch a train nobody can see from the previous...ummm... manifestation of existence ... as it were. So maybe it gets dark sooner there despite the location. Everything seems topsy-turvy there anyway. :wink:
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