Brigadoon,the True Story (Silly Post)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 15318

The movie _Brigadoon_ is on right now.  Now I am someone
who likes to try to associate everything possible to Harry's
world, and when the old man (forget his name) is telling the history
of Brigadoon, he talks about how anxious they were to get rid of
"evil" witches.  This make me wonder if there's another side to the
story, which I outline below (I apologize _a priori_ to any
_Brigadoon_ fans here):

Brigadoon was a community of hard-line Muggles (sort of
the 18th century equivelent of Privet Drive) whose especially
hard-nosed and bigoted minister got wind of the fact that only
a few miles from their respectable community was a SCHOOL
FOR WITCHES AND WIZARDS!  So appalled was he
that he vowed to see to it that every evil, satan-worshipping
infidel at this wretched school was exterminated.

Shortly thereafter, a mob of Brigadoon Muggles bearing
torches and pitchforks stormed Hogsmeade and caused
the most hideous riot in a century, which would have resulted
in far more casualities if a gang of irate Slytherins had not
turned the entire mob into hedgehogs.

In a fit of rage, Hogwarts' current headmaster, Bowman Wright,
decided to take action before Hogsmeade and the school
itself were seriously endangered... He first cast a memory
chram on the deranged minister, who then wandered
the Scotland moors with an erased mind for the rest of his life.
Then Wright cast a curse on Brigadoon itself.  A curse of a
very strange sort: Every night evermore, when its citizens went
to sleep, they would wake up a hundred years later, which if
nothing else, did much to cripple their ability to persecute
wizards in the centuries to come.


                    -- Dave, who probably has too much time
                            on his hands. :)