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* It's not uncommon to run across ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfic which misunderstands where Hogwarts is portraying it as being "just outside London" (the city is big, but not so big it takes best part of a day to travel across via train) instead of in Scotland.
** [[My Immortal|"...and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I'm in the seventh year (I'm seventeen). I'm a goth (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black...."]], to give but one ([[Mind Rape|horrific]]) example.
** To clarify, in canon the train trip from London to Hogwarts begins at 10am and ends just before dinner time. This is not geographically possible unless a) Hogwarts is in northern Scotland, b) the train travels at approximately walking pace, c) the train was traveling in circles, or
* ''[[Hogwarts Exposed]]'' has one scene in which Hermione watches the Sun set at 4 pm on the 1st September. If there's ''anywhere'' in the northern hemisphere where this is possible, it certainly isn't in Scotland. For the record, it's ''over four hours'' too early. An earlier scene had it still dark at 5:50 am in August.
* ''[[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami|Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami]]'' has all of chapter 10, which takes place in "francs". In "francs", the locals speak in bizarre psuedo-French, which is mostly just English with -ez stuck on the end, random French pronouns and random accents on vowels (and on one odd occasion, ''Spanish''), one can buy guns from "gun shops" without any kind of legal issue, is home to "the mona lisa church" and the "Eyfal tower", which you can apparently jump off of into the "river tames".
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