The Falling-Out of the Hogwarts Four

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No: HPFGUIDX 126032


Valky:
But JKR has pointed this out to be relatively laughable a situation in
Harrys History of Magic essay on Witch burning.

Lindsay: 
I am going to have to disagree with you when it comes to this certain
issue, Valky.  While JKR does say, through an essay, that the
situation was laughable, that does not explain two things:
 
How are children, or any witch or wizard of the time, who have not
been educated, able to know the Charm to keep them from burning at the
stake? <SNIP> 
I do think that a fully educated witch or wizard could easily save
themselves from a situation of being attacked by Muggles, but the
people of the time of the Founders did not have a centralized
education before they created Hogwarts.  There was no way for anyone
to know the magic they would need to freeze the fires, or the
Bubble-head charms, or Apparation or any other number of spells. 
Which is why, I imagine, many of the magical people of the time WERE
killed by Muggles, and why it would be justified for Slytherin to have
something against them.
 
Alla:

I agree with Valky, because for now that is the only canon we have 
and I think it is reasonable to assume based on canon that Salasar 
mistrust of muggles was  even if justifiable, not very well based on 
facts, let's put it this way.


But suppose for the sake of the argument that I agree and that essay 
was a lie and many witches were burned indeed. Don't you think that 
muggleborns children will be the FIRST to die, because Salazar 
refused to accept them to school and educate them? I mean thanks G-d 
for Helga and others, because if Salasar was dictating the rules, he 
would leave many, many muggleborn kids defenseless against the 
persecution.


Lindsay:
Second, would a children's history book, being taught in precarious
times such as these, tell the hard truth that witches and wizards who
did not know any better were tortured and killed?  What would this do,
except possibly create more anti-Muggle sentiment?  I doubt that
Dumbledore would allow such a circuluum, even if it were the truth.  I
believe Harry's History of Magic book painted the issue with a flowery
tale, and did not tell the entire truth of the matter.
 
The Wizarding World as a whole seems to be in denial, IMHO.


Alla:
I am also wondering how do you know that that book was not telling 
entire truth? 
I am thinking that even before Hogwarts was founded witches and 
wizards existed for centuries at least, so I imagine they knew a lot 
of stuff already. It is just founders made the magical education 
widely available, no? It is not like magic did not exist before them, 
so people had to pass magical knowledge to each other somehow.

I think WIzarding World is definitely in denial about many things, 
but not about this one and there is canon proof for that, which so 
far had not been proven as false, IMO only of course.



JMO,

Alla.