The Falling-Out of the Hogwarts Four

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No: HPFGUIDX 126125


Carol:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only canon I can recall about 
witches and wizards escaping persecution relates to witch-burning.
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So I think it's likely that *not* all witches and
wizards escaped persecution. Either that or in JKR's version of
history as in the RW version, a lot of (presumably) innocent 
*Muggles* died as the result of anti-witch/wizard hysteria.


Alla:
Umm, I am going to repeat myself again, but I'd like to not be 
misunderstood. :o). Upthread we did come to very 
nice consensus that persecution did occurred (or I think that we 
came to such consensus).  I am only disputing the size of 
persecution and methods ( the burning ). I am also disputing the 
dismissal of the canon source, not the existence of persecution per 
se. I even specifically conceded that point, which I was not really 
disputing originally, or if it seemed that I was, then sorry for 
being unclear.

And a very good point that many muggles did die as a result of anti-
witches hysteria. I am inclined to believe that.

Of course the main point of all that to me is how justified was 
Salazar in letting his fear, distrust, dislike ( call it how you 
prefer) of Muggles cloud his judgment of muggle-borns magical 
children, who, IMO, were more vulnerable than purebloods, because as 
Melissa (I think) said they lived among muggles.

I don't find Salazar politics to be justified at all. 


Just my opinion of course,
Alla