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Salazar's retirement career

2019-02-13T15:17:00Z

Posted by: sunnyskywalker

It's interesting that we never hear what happened to Salazar Slytherin after he "departed" that fateful morning. Jodel suggested a couple of possibilities (included below). As a slightly tongue-in-cheek exercise, here's a quiz on his possible post-Hogwarts activities.

(a) He founded Durmstrang.
(b) He founded the Department of Mysteries (whatever it was called pre-Ministry).
(c) He started a war (maybe with pureblood supremacist ideology, maybe something else).
(d) He retired and lived a quiet life of scholarship and contemplation.
(e) He served on the Wizards' Council.
(f) He started a pet shop specializing in exotic snakes.
(g) He accidentally got killed by his own basilisk. The other Founders covered it up out of respect for his memory.
(h) The other Founders killed him and buried him under the foundations of their new Astronomy Tower.
(i) Other, explained in comments.

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Questions on the Sword

2015-08-10T20:18:00Z

Posted by: condwiramurs.livejournal.com

I'm working on a couple more essays for my "Indestructible" series, and a separate essay on Harry's moral education. But I thought I'd toss out here a couple of questions that have been nagging me on a mostly-unrelated topic.

The fabled Sword of Gryffindor.

Because as I was considering Severus' moral arc in DH I found myself asking questions about that little scene by the pond, and what he's doing with the sword there and why. And from there I started asking myself about the sword itself. And suddenly things that I had unreflectively accepted as making sense started to seem less so.

By which I mean: the Sword of Gryffindor?

The Sword of Gryffindor?

Godric Gryffindor, legendary wizard and co-founder of a magical school in which wands are the fundamental required tool for functionally any life skill, including combat, left behind as his most powerful and revered artifact a sword?

Blink.

Something feels just a little off, here. Help me unravel it?

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Development of Pureblood Culture

2014-10-08T22:11:00Z

Posted by: terri-testing.livejournal.com

The Development of Pureblood Culture

The subculture of magical Britain is, of course, to a very large extent the culture developed and transmitted by Purebloods. But that subculture itself developed out of, and in response to (in at least some respects probably in deliberate distinction from) the surrounding culture at the time the magical world cut itself (partially) off from the rest of us.

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