Persecution

[or.phan_ann]

No: HPFGUIDX 168117

> > Ann wrote earlier:

> << I don't think the foundation of Hogwarts had anything to do
with persecution from outside. >>

> Catlady replied:

> It DID influence the LOCATION of the school. As Professor
Binns said in CoS, "You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was
founded over a thousand > years ago - the precise date is
uncertain - by the four greatest witches and wizards of the
age.

<SNIP>

> They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes,
for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and
witches and wizards suffered much persecution."

Ann:

Whoops... thanks for the canon...

I think it would have been established anyway, though, and that
doesn't explicitly say that it was founded in response to a
particular persecution. (A problem with the 1692 date for
Seclusion is that it's *after* the English witch-hunts, the
Civil Wars, and the Glorious Revolution. If anything, Britain
should have been safe for wizardkind by then; and if it wasn't,
they would surely have hidden themselves earlier.

Ann