Anti-Potter groups

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1471

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Denise" <drohlede at n...> wrote:

> The physics told the women it was God's will that the labor be 
> painful,

As Church of England (and other) preachers did in the Victorian era 
when modern anesthestia was first invented (as ether). Victoria 
herself knew better. Altho' I suspect that the entire 'natural 
childbirth' movement is just a more effective lie to achieve the 
same goal.

> The physics did something along the lines of lobbyists nowadays, 
> and got the king (James) to re-write the Bible, anti-witch,

As I understand it, James' scholars did not have to be lobbied by 
physics to know that James had long had an obsession / phobia of 
witches, whom he blamed for all his problems including headaches.

> Snape would have probably been spared (aka a man, urgh), but 
> Hermione would have been (hanged, wasn't it?) right away

Men were executed for 'witchcraft' same as women. Except the ones who 
were useful to the monarch in power (such as Elizabeth's Dr. Dee) who 
became court magicians and were declared to achieve their effects by 
knowledge of science rather than by occult powers, as occult powers 
are always gifts from the Devil: which is one of the reasons some 
people hate HP: HP shows people using magic powers without going to 
Hell for having accepted a gift from the Devil.