"Dark Ages"?!

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 38612

aldrea279 wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bystardust" <doldra at h...> wrote:
> > It's true--the WW does seem to have held on better than muggles to
> > old-fashioned ways of life (for example, quills and parchment), but
> > that's what I find confusing: in some ways, the WW seems very
> > separated from ours, but in other ways the line between the two
> > worlds is blurred.
> 
> Yes, it does indeed.  But I'm thinking the WW and the Muggle world
> branched from each other a long time ago. The story about the
> founding of Hogswarts makes me believe strongly in this.  I don't
> know the exact qoute(I'm almost sure it's somewheres in Cos), but it
> mentions that when the school was founded there was alot of bad
> prejudice about wizards or something of the kind.  I just immediately
> think of the Dark Ages(that'd be back some hundred years in England,
> around the time they still had parchment/quills and governesses, I'd
> say...).  And I agree with draco382, in that it seems as though this
> merging of Muggle and WW seems to be rather new.

*cough cough*  My dear Aldrea, one hundred years back doesn't
take one anywhere near the Dark Ages properly so called.  Late
Victorian/early Edwardian period, more like, and already well
past quills and parchment.  Unless you meant "some hundreds of
years," which is more accurate.  Actually, "more than a thousand
years" would be needed to reach the true Dark Ages, if I'm not
mistaken:  historically they begin with the fall of Rome, which
occurred in the fifth century A.D.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>