(African-)American Schools

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: (African-)American Schools
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5908] Re: American Schools
Date: 8/6/00 1:19 pm  (ET)

> Did you know there is a definite basis for this theory in African
American folklore? In our oral tradition, there is talk of the Flying
People--

No, I hadn't known. Thank you for telling me. (I hope that modern
USA children grow up less ignorant of African American folklore than I
did. There's no logical reason that I should have been taught Egyptian and
Greek and Roman myths in school but not what exists in my own country.)

>There also must be a Mesoamerican school, too, in Mexico--one that
is just as old or older than Hogwarts. (snip) I'm not too sure how the
Conquistadors would have effected it

In my theory, the Conquista cauused it to go secret and either withdraw
completely from the Muggle world or remain as a secret observer of
Muggles who would secretly help indigenous Muggles when they were in
exceptionally bad trouble.

> Here's a theory of my own: there have to be magical Spanish and/or
Portuguese-speaking schools in the New World. Somehow, the Spanish
Inquisition was able to destroy the Iberian school with the aid of a
uberwizard like Voldemort.

You may be right. I suppose the Dark Wizard was simply trying to destroy
the wizarding school and not really caring that the Inquisition was
involved. Did the Inquisition know that it was being helped by a Dark
Wizard? If so, weren't they scared of him?

I don't believe that Iberian wizard folk would have had to flee to the New
World from the Inquisition -- they could just hide from the Inquisition --
but I'll accept that they fled to the New World from a Voldemort-type.