Boggarts & the Passage to Honeydukes

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 143052

 
> Betsy Hp:
> Since Hogwarts was founded during a time when Muggles were 
> persecuting wizards and witches, 

a_svirn:
I beg to differ. Hogwarts was founded in the pre-conquest time when 
muggles and wizards lived together in harmony. Witch-hunts started a 
couple of centuries later. And we don't really know who hunted whom. 
After all for real witches, like Wandeline the Weird burnings were 
more like a joke than a real ordeal. 


> Betsy Hp:
and it was put (I think 
> deliberately, IIRC) in a very out-of-the-way place, and it was 
built 
> as a fortress type castle rather than a princess type castle 

a_svirn:
"Princess type castle"? Would you mind explain the term? 

> Betsy Hp:
(can 
> actually be locked down in times of trouble), I always liked to 
> think that the various secret passages have to do with siege 
> escapes.  

a_svirn:
Ah, but that particular phenomenon was explained in GoF:

"There's traditionally been a lot of rivalry between all the magic 
schools.  Durmstrang and Beauxbatons like to conceal their where-
abouts so nobody can steal their secrets," said Hermione matter-of--
factly."

 Sounds like wizards were more afraid of their own kind. Not 
surprising, really.