Identifying with Muggles in Potterverse WAS: Re: DD at th...

[horridporrid03]

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> >>a_svirn:
> Well, the stature of secrecy is 1696 or something, a century after 
> Shakespeare. So why wouldn't they know about him? Wizards and       
> muggles had a shared culture at the time.

Betsy Hp:
Oh, for some reason I had the 1200's in mind.  (Is that when Hogwarts 
was founded?)  So yeah, you're right they don't have any reason to 
*not* know about Shakespeare.  Obviously Hogwarts doesn't teach him 
(or any other form of literature) but I suppose they might get him at 
home.

That also means the WW went into hiding well into the Renaissance.  I 
wonder what the Hogwarts curriculum was like at the time?  Was more 
covered?  Has generations of warfare taken their toll?

Betsy Hp