[HPforGrownups] The HBP is DEAD! Long live the HBP!

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 107560

Louis wrote:
>      You would think that things like a conquerer's childhood would
> warrant great material for the wizarding history books, but no;
> wizards seem to like to sweep 'unpleasant' facets of history under
> the rug... what do you think that whole thing with Umbridge and
> Fudge was all about in the fifth book?   They choose not to know,
> not to delve too deeply or dwell on 'upsetting' things... even when
> more than a decade passes.  Only when the problem actually slaps
> them in the face do they bother to acknowledge it, but only as much
> as they absolutely MUST.

That's a very interesting observation. Another interesting piece of evidence
on this is the history curriculum. There seems to be an inordinate amount of
time spent on discussing Giant wars and Goblin rebellions, but the bits of
wizarding history we get to hear about are all about bureaucratic stuff:
conventions and the like.

If non-human history has been so stormy, how come we've not heard about
anything that's rocked the WW on its human side?

Is it for some reason accepted that _all_ sorts of disruptive events have to
be hushed up and not talked about? Is the history of the WW actually a
constant series of struggles against dissidence of all sorts, rebellions to
rival those of the Goblins, Dark conspiracies, and the like? Have there
actually been periods when the Dark side have been in control.

But we don't talk about that, or teach it to the children...

Just going even more wildly out on a limb, if there's truly a chaotic
history to the WW, does that explain why despite their greater physical
robustness, longer life span, and magical abilities, the world doesn't have
a majority of wizarding folk rather than Muggles?

Cheers

Ffred

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