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in the movie version of harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, sirius black is said to have been seen in dufftown and hermione replies “dufftown? that’s not far from here.” dufftown is on the milestones and if we accept this statement from the movie, that would also put hogwarts on the milestones. however, the book only says “…they think sirius black has been sighted [cut] not far from here [cut] it was a muggle who saw him”. [poa chap. #07; p. 96]. therefore, the association with dufftown belongs only to the films, and does not fit with the concurrent presentation of hogwarts in the films as being accessible via the iconic glenfinnan viaduct.
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glenfinnan is in the far west, very close to the sea, and dufftown is about forty miles to the north and eighty-seven miles to the east. To get from the outskirts of Glenfinnan to the outskirts of Dufftown, you’d expect to travel south-west to north-east along the great valley called Strathspey, alongside the A86, A9 and A95. alternatively, you could just head east, ignoring the roads and hopping up and down over a series of mountain ranges, but in that case you’d be entering some very wild country about eighty miles (over an hour’s drive) before you reach to hogwarts.
even if you travel from glenfinnan to the area near dufftown via strathspey, your problem is that glenfinnan’s proximity to a very jagged coastline means that it is almost impossible to approach glenfinnan overland from the west, unless your point starting sea malaig on the west coast. Coming from the south, you either go up the east side of the country and head southwest along strathspey, in which case you pass through dufftown a hundred miles before you reach glenfinnan, or you go up the west side and arrive at a geographic location. – Junction in the vicinity of Fort William, with Glenfinnan about ten miles west of you and Dufftown eighty-five miles to the northeast along Strathspey. to come broadly from the south and go over the glenfinnan viaduct before you get to the dufftown area you would have to get to that junction and turn left, travel west across the viaduct towards mallaig then turn 180° and come back across it to the east, or leave the muggle line route and make a pointless loop around the field near mallaig, weaving wildly to avoid the many long thin lakes with which the area is divided, to approach the viaduct from the west side, mallaig.
since the two assumptions in the movies (that hogwarts is accessed via the glenfinnan viaduct and that it is near dufftown) cannot be true without assuming a pointless digression with no purpose other than to step over the beautiful viaduct , we can discard the information from the movies. this doesn’t necessarily mean that hogwarts isn’t in the cairngorms/near dufftown, nor that it isn’t accessible via the glenfinnan viaduct, but it can’t be both, so its appearance in the movies has no canon weight
while closely following the route of the express, the flying ford anglia passes over peebles, a small town in south east scotland. this means that if hogwarts were in the north of england the train would have to back up on itself somewhere past peebles and head south again, and there is no suggestion that it does so, so hogwarts must also be in Scotland. but where in scotland?
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sunset in britain on september 1, when the train travels, would be around 7:45 p.m. m. bst in london, 8:15 p.m. m. bst in the highlands. what place, is it 9 hours from london?
Let’s say the speed of the train is 100 km/h. thus, hogwarts is about 900 km from london. dufftown is 10.5 hours from london and is 931 km away. I’d say it’s somewhere northeast of dundee, as some of the places are 800-900 km away, and it’s 7-10 hours (by train). southwest of aberdeen maybe?
[30 minutes of investigation to find nothing, good]As such, I conclude that I am stuck. help me please.