[HPforGrownups] RE: Gay Character - "Food" - Barty Jr - Cruciatis - North American Wizards

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 27239


--- "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 

> QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES says many British
> wizarding folk emigrated 
> to the American colonies in the seventeenth and
> eighteenth century in 
> hope of evading the persecution in Britain/Europe.
> Which suggests 
> that the history textbook's explanation of why Witch
> Burning in the 
> Middle Ages Was Completely Pointless was one of
> those lies told by 
> textbooks (there may be a Flame-Freezing Charm, but
> the persecution 
> was troubling enough that the wizarding folk
> emigrated because of it)

   Even if you surivived the burning at the stake you
still lost your home and possessions and had to start
over again somewhere else - why not the New World?

> In *my* Potterverse, in North America the indigenous
> wizarding folk 
> got a good look at how Euro-American Muggles treated
> Native American 
> Muggles and promptly, effectively hid themselves
> away from 
> Euro-American wizarding folk 

    In fact very early relations with the Indians were
fairly good. That they deteriorated the way they did
was the fault of both parties. It seems to me likely
Indian Wizards and Witches would identify more
strongly with their European counterparts than
neighboring Muggles. 'Race' as such doesn't seem to be
an issue in the Wizarding world.

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