[HPforGrownups] Re: The female founders and Latin

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 40205


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From: "Suzanne Chiles" <suzchiles at pobox.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: [HPforGrownups] Re: The female founders and Latin



SNIP
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> Or do we think that magical folk in the dark ages had
connections with the
> church?

Why not?  In a time period where demonstrating magic would
probably get the layman or woman tortured and executed, what
better place to hide it than in an organization where mystical
miraculous happenings were attributed to the power of God?  I
could easily see an educated order of nuns actually being a coven
of Potterverse witches... True, there would be the problem of
losing magical bloodlines because of the celibacy requirements,
but many nuns in the middle ages did not take their vows as
virgins, but after they'd been married, had children and were
widowed.  It was perfectly acceptable for a widow to take the
veil and spend the rest of her life in a convent.

Hmmm. Now that I think on it, this could possibly be one of the
things behind the small size of "current" wizarding population in
the UK... if many magical bloodlines died out because the last
female lived a life of "religious" celibacy, it could account for
the (assumed) highly inbred families such as the Malfoys, Crabbes
and Goyles.

Just something that popped into my head today...

Bernadette/RowanRhys

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