OT: Spanish inquisition

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 34628

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "sing2wine" <bonnie.abrams at c...> wrote: 
> > Maybe I'm just too Jewish but perhaps wizards and witches are kind 
of 
> > like Conversos - Jews forced to convert to Christianity in 
> > Inquisition Spain (they share being burned alive for not doing 
so...).
> > They clandestinely kept their "old" practices while outwardly 
> > appearing to be observant Christians...It fits the wizarding world 
in 
> > more ways than one...

Jews were not burned alive in Spain, just expelled. (Not that that's 
very much better.) The problem I'd see with making the comparison, and 
then drawing a conclusion that the wizarding world still secretly 
practices an older religion, is that the vast majority of the 
Conversos' descendants were completely assimilated into the mainstream 
Christian Spanish population. St. Teresa of Avila was from a 3rd 
generation converso family, no?

Eileen