Modern Plumbing (was Re: Heir of Slytherin and Dumbledore)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 58794

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Przemyslaw Plaskowicki"
<przepla at i...> wrote:

> 
> That raise interesting question: how old is WW? I mean, when exactly 
> Wizards and Muggles created their separate societies? ...edited...
> I personally belive, that such separation took place in ancient Sumer 
> or Babylon (3000-2000 BC), because there were a civilisation as we 
> know now with laws, schools, letters, banks, diplomacy, spies and of 
> course magic.
> 
> Regards,
> Pshemekan

bboy_mn:

Well, this doesn't help solve the mystery but I wanted to point out
that Ollivander's was established in 382 B.C.

SS/PS Am PB pg 102
"The last shop was narrow and shabby. Peeling gold letters over the
door read Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C."

That would imply that the wand makers art was truely an established
art at that time, so I would have to believe to origins of the wizard
world pre-date that time substantially.

If we look at primitive (shaman, witch doctor, medicine man)
societies, magic has been at the foundation of all of those, and of
course, those societies all included their 'magic men'. So I would say
that the wizard world is easily as old as you speculated and perhaps
even older. It could be at the foundation of the lost 'worlds' like
Atlantis, and Shangri La. It would answer many mysteries like how
could the pyrimids get build with such primitive technology? Easy with
magic. 

Just a thought.

bboy_mn


Just a thought.