Salazar & Slytherin(was Re: Draco and Slytherin House (was: Harsh Morality)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 121537


> Alla:
> 
> 
> Persecution of magical folks... Sure, "witches burnings". In real 
> world, many innocents died because they were suspected of 
being  witches, right?
> 
> But don't forget that in JKR world REAL witches were not afraid 
of  those burnings and saved themselves, while who really 
suffered were  muggle folks.
> 
> So, seems that Salasar was not really rational in his fears of 
> persecution, IF he had such, which I don't remember in canon.

Pippin:
Binns has already been quoted on this thread, so I'll just add that  
he talks about persecution generally, while the famous quote 
from Bagshot's History of Magic refers only to burning, and the 
question Harry is researching is about the fourteenth 
century,while Hogwarts was founded much earlier.

There are lots of ways to persecute people without resorting to 
burning them alive. Since the days of the Emperor Justinian, 
heretics (witchcraft  could be subsumed under heresy) were 
barred from inheritance, practicing law or *teaching*, and 
testifying  against Catholics. But heretics were prosecuted only 
occasionally until the eleventh century when large-scale actions 
began*--about  the time Hogwarts was founded. 


Pippin

*Moore, RI, The Formation of a Persecuting Society, Blackwell, 
Malden MA, 1990