a lot of Names, interrupted with a lot of Traitors,

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 154786

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> In which case, why was the Statute of Secrecy passed in 1692? I, 
for one, doubt that the date is a coincidence. Not everyone is 
familiar with medieval witch hunts of whatever variety, but the 
Salem witch trials are very well known. And those witches and 
wizards *were* British. It seems to me a perfect justification--or 
excuse--to separate the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, and to keep the 
existence of the WW a secret.
> 

Tonks:
What date does the Status of Secrecy start in the UK?  What does it 
say in the UK editions?

Maybe it only says 1692 in the US version of the book to correspond 
with the Witch Trials in the US.

The reason I question this is because according to what I can dig up 
about Witchcraft in the UK the law against it was in 1602 and then 
the modified law, the Witchcraft act of 1736,  denied that there was 
such a thing as witches. 

Anyone in the UK that can tell us what date your editions have?

Tonks_op