Boggarts & the Passage to Honeydukes

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 143125

> >>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:
"They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for 
it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches 
and wizards suffered much persecution."  (CoS scholastic paperback 
p.150)

I'd also say that the side of a conflict that retreats so absolutely 
they actually hide their animals probably came out the worst in 
whatever clashes occured.  IMO, anyway.
 
> >>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:
Ah, yes, this is technical term meaning a castle built for looks 
(ala Disney) rather than use.  (At least, that's what it means in 
*my* world <g>.)  I doubt castles were built just to be pretty in 
the days of the Founders.  (I'm by no means a castle expert.  Which 
you've probably already guessed.)  But I was thinking more along the 
lines that JKR does suggest that the castle is protective rather 
than just a cool location for a school. 

Betsy Hp