a lot of Names, interrupted with a lot of Traitors, Lily's Crush, McG/Hooch

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No: HPFGUIDX 154743

Neri:
> Between 1543 and 1661, Matthew Hopkins the "witchfinder-general"
> ordered the executions of three to four thousand women.  One of these
> was accused of having a dog called Grizzel-greediguts and a cat named
> Grimalkin, both of which were (of course) demons in disguise. 
> Grimalkin, is grey + malkin, that is, "a gray cat".   In a drama by
> Middleton [1604], Hecate, Queen of the witches, exits with the line
> "Now I goe, now I flie, Malkin  my sweete spirit and I.".  Even
> Shakespeare used this cliché in Macbeth, when one of the three witches
> says "I come, Grey-malkin."


Potioncat:
Three to four ***thousand***? In 20 years???

OK, some of the Slytherin mentality is a bit more understandable.