[bānkoēt] (n) EN: homeland ; hometown ; native village ; birthplace ; fatherland ; motherlandFR: village natal [ m ] ; lieu de naissance [ m ] ; pays natal [ m ]
If Dumbledore wanted you to find it, and didn't want it to falling in to the Ministry hands, where better to hide it than the birthplace of the founder of Gryffindor.
n. The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. “The birthplace of valor.” Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]