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

[potioncat]

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> Neri:
> At least this mistake is in the original website, not mine. As 
Sherrie
> mentions in another post Matthew Hopkins' regain of terror was
> 1645-1647. For more details see
> http://www.sawneybean.com/horrors/matthew.htm
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins
> 
> But the dates of 1543-1661 approximately fit the height of the Great
> Hunt in Europe.

Potioncat:
And then I just looked at the dates very quickly and came up with 20 
years...I really am better at math than that, but this sort of thing 
explains why there's no credibility in any timeline post I write. It 
also explains why I don't find missing 5 hours a big deal <eg>.


> Neri:
> Well, it would have been if JKR hadn't made it clear that all these
> women were muggles, while true witches and wizards were never in 
real
> danger from witch hunts. I suppose the Slytherin faction could use
> them to justify muggle hunting. 


Potioncat:
Yeah, after I posted, I realized I'd made a pretty bad mish-mash of 
fact and fiction. Still--I never realized in RL so many women were 
executed as witches!!!