More stories left to tell

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 180406

Jim Ferer wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180171>:

<< There are so many stories left to tell, though - we could spend a
lot of time discussing those and how the wizard world works, but there
seems little interest in it. I don't post much any more because my
posts rarely get replies. >>

Me, too.

Katie anigrrl wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180183>:

<< How do you guys think the very first wizards realized they were
different and how do you think the wizarding community was formed? >>

I once proposed that, very long ago, an asteroid made of magic had
crushed into the Earth and plunged deep underground, and over time it
dissolved into the water of a spring. And over generations, the plants
and animals and people that drank from that spring became magical
beings. On one hand, this must have happened long enough ago for the
magical plants and animals to have spread all over the world. On the
other hand, it must have happened after the ancestors of humans and
the ancestors of chimpanzees had diverged, because there don't seem to
be any chimp wizards.

And it might be that the ones who moved away while they were still
human were the ancestors of wizards, while the ones who stayed were
the ancestors of Goblins and trolls and merpeople and veela. I don't
know whether suggesting that humans were the ancestors of the other
races of magical beings is some kind of Human Supremacist notion -- I
think the centaurs wouldn't take very kindly to being told they were
the descendants of wizards who had been only partially successful in
their attempt to become horse animagi.

If the first wizards were a band that lived near that spring, they
were a community before they were wizards, and they didn't realize
they were different until they were well acquainted with other bands.
If the first wizards were popping up apparently at random in bands of
humans all over the world, each one would have noticed he/she was
different very quickly, but it might have been a long time before they
knew that there were people like them in other bands. One listie
suggested one time that they didn't even realise that magic was
hereditary until then. They could have been popping up randomly in
different bands, if the genes of the ancestral wizards had spread
widely before being activated by some environmental change.

I like the idea of each tribe and village having its own wizard, who
was very important to them as a healer, a water-finder, someone who
made the crops grow better and the animals walk right up to the
hunters. When people started living in larger groups (cities), the
wizards got together and exchanged knowledge instead of learning only
from each one's own parent(s). The resulting increase of magical
knowledge would have made each wizard, and the wizard class, much more
powerful.

I say, before writing was invented in Sumer and Egypt, the wizards
were already in positions of power there. The wizards were the
priesthood and established the first wizarding school in Sumer, the
second in Egypt, maybe the third in China.