[HPforGrownups] Re: Not many U.S. Wizards

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 27272



--- bookraptor11 at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Caius Marcius"
> <coriolan at w...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., bookraptor11 at y...
> wrote:
> > > Since we have seen no US wizards in HP, 
> 
> > Three African wizards sat in serious conversation,
> all of them 
> > wearing long white robes and roasting what looked
> like a rabbit on 
> a 
> > bright purple fire, while a group of middle-aged
> American witches 
> sat 
> > gossiping happily beneath a spangled banner
> stretched between their 
> > tents that read:  THE SALEM WITCHES' INSTITUTE. 
> > 
> >   - GoF, Chap. 7
> 
> Perhaps the word "see," as I used it, is imprecise. 
> We do have that 
> one sentence in one book. However, what it tells us
> about US witches 
> is almost nothing.  Same goes for the African
> wizards. 

     Well, we see that there is some sort of Witches
organization headquartered at Salem, (I'm assuming
this is Salem Massachussetts (sic?)) and that American
witches like to show their colors so to speak, in fact
they seem to be the only ones aside from the two
competing national teams who display any kind of
national insignia.
   What I want to know is is it the 'star spangled
banner', ie the stars and stripes, with the words
'Salem Witches Institute' impressed upon it. Or a
simple banner decorated with red, white and blue
stars?
         

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