Dark Umbridge / Was Salazar a Bigot?

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 180032

>> Goddlefrood earlier:
> << what other reason than bigotry would there be for 
> Slytherin's mistrust of muggle-borns? Those muggle-borns 
> we have met would not lead to a conclusion, IMO, that they 
> can not be trusted. >>

Catlady:
> Salazar's reason ... I always figured that his argument was 
> that Muggle-born students, because their parents and many of 
> their other relatives and neighbors are Muggles, have much 
> more contact with Muggles than pureblood students do, and 
> therefore have much more opportuntity to slip and reveal 
> the location of Hogwarts to a Muggle. 
<SNIP>

Goddlefrood:

This would make a certain amount of sense if they were not 
so many enchantments on Hogwarts. We are supposed to believe 
that a Muggle looking directly at the school would only see a 
mouldering old ruin. When the sight of a mouldering old ruin 
ever put off a human from having a good look at same is a 
question that will have to continue to plague us.

Oh, and btw, witch persecution in the British Isles was 
not particularly fervent until quite a little later than 
the founding of Hogwarts. It wasn't until well after the 
Norman invasion that magical suspects started to be hounded. 
Probably around the 14th century or so. Do provide evidence 
should this be incorrect.

The Witchsmeller Pursuivant