[HPforGrownups] Founders

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 112181

Catlady wrote:
>You mean, besides the ever-popular Godric/Salazar ship, based on the
>idea that they were closer than brothers and more than best friends
>before they split up? Personally, my own Founderfic has Salazar being
>already evil before Godric was ever born and they were never best
>friends, just colleagues.

>In my own private Potterverse, at the time of Founding, Godric and
>Helga were married, each a bit over 100 years old, third marriage for
>both of them (because previous marriages were to Muggles who died
>naturally). 600-year-old Salazar is courting 21-year-old Rowena, both
>because her magical power and her intelligence can be useful for him
>and because she is quite beautiful. To me, Godric was pureblood, Helga
>witch mother Muggle father, Rowena Muggle-born, and Salazar probably
>Muggle mother wizard father. And Godric and Helga got the school to
>start a school when they observed this immensely talented child,
>Rowena, with no one to teach her, so they wanted to teach her.

A wicked little thought crossed my mind last weekend.

What if Salazar's dislike of Muggle borns was just snobbery?

Imagine the scene, as the class of 1004 line up.

On one side, there are the wizard born children, decently raised, properly
robed and kitted out, talking among themselves in Latin, finding friends and
looking forward to the new experience.

On the other side is a motley collection of Muggle-born kids, terrified
because they've just been kidnapped by witches and the priest had told them
they'd be killed and eaten, ragged, filthy, smelly, verminous, illiterate,
talking a couple of dozen different languages and dialects so that they
can't understand each other, leave alone the Founders, you get the picture.

And Salazar thinks to himself, looking down his nose, what's the point of
trying to teach this lot the 9 uses of dragon's blood when they don't even
know the 1 use of fleabane? Or what a toilet is for? It's all too much, I'm
off with the _civilised_ students who at least know which end of a quill is
which.

Meanwhile Helga, who is a big bluffy motherly sort, gathers them all
together, lines them up with buddies from the older students who can teach
them the basics, takes them under her wing, and generally makes something of
them...

Who knows, who can tell?

Ffred

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