wizardverse

[bookraptor11]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:


> Her Potterverse seems to resemble the Muggle RL more than I think is
> plausible -- for example, QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES tells of
> wizarding USA as a place which speaks English, practises wand-based
> magic, and plays Quodpot instead of Quidditch. I think there would 
be
> a great deal more Native American wizards, better able to defend
> themselves and/or hide themselves from the Euro-American colonizers
> than the Native American Muggles, clinging to their own languages 
and
> own magic systems and their game would be a form of Lacrosse rather
> than of Football.

I'd been trying to imagine wizarding in the USA. English might be the 
universal language here for convenience, but I'd imagined clusters of 
wizarding communities that settled from different nations. Unlike USA 
Muggles, they got along better but mingled less, keeping a lot more 
of their native customs and language, and keeping more to the 
original region they'd settled. Wizarding travel was probably far 
superior to Muggle methods for quite a long time, letting them keep 
closer ties with home.  I wonder how the Wizarding community handled 
the Revolution?  Did patriot wizards clash with tory wizards?

My knowledge of Native Americans is spotty. I have an idea that 
they'd differ from European wizards in practice, also that Native 
American wizards and witches were closer to Muggle Native Americans. 
The shaman at least(and probably his/her family)would be a witch or 
wizard, and live amongst the tribe, although there must be seperate 
clusters of Native American wizards. Native American religion has a 
reverence toward animals and birds and nature. I imagine Animagi 
Wizards are more common than in Europe, as more of an effort would 
been put into learning that branch of magic. The ones who succeed are 
probably given the highest respect.

I agree that Native American wizards could defend themselves from 
Muggle colonizers, but what about wizard colonizers?  Would they 
necessarily get along?  Maybe better than Muggles, but not 
completely. European wizards would want to live apart from the Muggle 
colonizers, especially with the witch hunts still occuring during the 
sixteenth and seventeenth century. I tried to imagine what would spur 
European wizard migration, and thought a combination of economics and 
witch hunts might do it. And they'd want to carve out their own lands 
in a big, underpopulated region.

I've imagined a conversation where one witch is talking about the 
Muggles, and how badly they treated the Native Americans, running 
them off their lands, being smug, and another witch 
replying, "whereas we made whole areas Unplottable, so we could move 
in and the Native Americans were none the wiser that they'd lost part 
of their lands!"

Also, would Native American wizards have developed broomstick 
riding?  Might they have decided flight was a sacred gift given to a 
wizard who's Animagus form was a bird or insect?  Would they be 
offended by European wizards soaring through the air on sticks?

Just some thoughts that have been going through my mind for awhile.  
If anything I've written about Native Americans offends anybody, 
please accept my apology. It's through ignorance, not malice.

Donna