[HPforGrownups] re:Castle/Snape'sAge/Respect/ChoiceOfBadTeacher/Hawthorn

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 168701

> Kemper wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/168462>:
>
> << I'm no architectural historian, but castles of Howgarts immensity
> did not exist circa 997 AD.>>

> Catlady replied:
> That's only Muggle castles. The wizards started out more advanced than
> Muggles -- for a while, Muggle inventions were attempts to do by
> 'technology' what they had seen wizards do by magic. (There's canon
> for that, but I can't remember which book to skim for the quote about
> the ways Muggles have figured out how to do things without magic.) So
> the wizards may have had, what are they, 14th century castles, and
> 19th century palaces, and 20th century flush toilets, and talking
> portraits (Mrs Black could be a 20th century video loop, but the
> portraits in Hogwarts are 21st century AI) more than 3000 or 4000
> years ago.

> Steve wrote, earlier:
> Personally, I suspect what we see now is very similar
> to the castle as it was originally built. But note
> that in the beginning magic was not as developed as it
> is now. I suspect no magical train, and likely no Floo
> Network or Portkeys, and very possibly no Apparation.


Kemper now:
I don't like the idea that Hogwarts has not changed since it's
construction/manifestation.  The reader is drawn into the magic world,
I believe, because we see similarities within the real world:

Platform 10:Platform 9 3/4; British Boarding School:Hogwarts;
Hospital:St. Mungo's.

We are connected through the familiarity of scene.

So, it would seem weird in JKR's world for 10th century
student/apprentice who came from a hovel/hut to enter brick and mortar
of Brobdingnagian proportions.

Kemper