Your thoughts lead me to this: maybe Hogwarts was founded as a type of unification. If wizards mingled more freely in their local communities at that time, they would generally take on the allegiances of that community. That would create wizard-to-wizard tensions as well (and might even promote the development of the dark arts, if community-to-community tensions lead to hostilities). Taking the children out of the community to educate them would weaken their links to those communities and strengthen their links to the wizarding community as a whole.
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Re: and w00t enigmatic ginny
Date: 2004-10-18 08:43 am (UTC)