It also eventually occurred to Hermione to ask someone where they were. She had assumed, initially, that Durmstrang was in Germany, based on its language of instruction, but after a few weeks there she'd concluded that it wasn't this cold in Germany, even the northern parts. One of her more English-literate classmates, a boy from Iceland named Jarek, had laughed at this and told her they were in Norway, but as the school was Unplottable, no one knew where.