[HPforGrownups] Re: Off With Their Heads :) or The Headless Horseman Wannabe

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 167918

> Ann:
>
> This is my opinion, too. 1692 is very late for British wizards to
> still be living openly as wizards; for one thing, it's after the
> Civil Wars, and Muggle history seems to be very similar to ours.
> [...] The
> combination of the Wars of the Roses and reports of early Mediaeval
> witch-hunts might have forced a formal Statute of Secrecy later
> overridden by the International S of S, but I think secrecy was
> already part of the culture by then. (Speaking of which, weren't the
> witch-trials in Salem held in 1692? Maybe they were the immediate
> cause of the I S of S.)

I'm actually trying to put together a timeline - started it in trying
to come up with a plausible reason why the minister of magic has a
title like the cabinet members yet is not apparently answerable to
parliament. I'm leaning towards them not being answerable to the
monarch either ATM, possibly related to the civil war, or maybe the
glorious revolution.

In fact, the glorious revolution is _perfect_ - they could have for a
time been answerable to the Jacobites, maybe one of them was born with
magic at the right time frame, then that faded in a process
paralleling the reduction of the powers of the british monarch.

Only problem is that split in the succession was over catholicism, not
likely to be conducive to relations with the WW. Or perhaps that's
only what the muggle histories tell us.

--Random832