[HPforGrownups] Witch Burnings (WAS: Sorting Muggle-borns ( was: The Basilisk))

[Sherry Garfio]

No: HPFGUIDX 46931

Say said:
> Going back a couple of hundred years, muggles happily burned 
> suspected witches quite legally (has that been mentioned in the books?).

Indeed it has.  I don't have the exact quote, but I think it's in PoA, first
(or possibly second) chapter.  Harry has an essay to write over the summer
holidays, and the topic is something like "The Salem Witch Burnings Were
Completely Pointless - Discuss."  I think it goes on to provide a few quotes
from the History of Magic text about a witch who enjoyed being burned so much
that she repeatedly allowed herself to be caught, and then would assume another
identity so that she could get caught again.

- Sherry


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