checking out the library book / Love - massively OT, mostly

[annemehr]

Watching this one like a spectator at Wimbledon...

Kneasy wrote: 
> Just to be difficult -
> Unless the WW split off from Muggle society before Christianity was
established 
> in this sceptred isle. The dating of Hogwarts is no guarantee that
the formation
> of the WW happened at the same time. Only need to back-date it 5-600
years.
> A mere bagatelle.

I checked the Lexicon. The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy
didn't go into effect until 1692, finalising the separation between
the communities.  On the other hand, the wizarding community had
already been withdrawing for a while. In 1419, the Wizard's Council
declared that Quidditch must not ever be noticed by Muggles, yet
sometime in the 1300s "witch persecution" abounded.  Though real
witches were safe, it suggests the two communities were still in
contact, or at least had been in recent memory.


Anne