The antimagic shock wave is what I'm calling what happened in canon. One of them said the taboo and it was basically the world exploded and everyone was arrested before they got off the ground. It happened to instantly to not be an effect of the Taboo. No one in series can cast something that big and effective that fast unless they are amazingly good and powerful. Best I can tell its a nonlethal artillery strike the hits and then they apperate into the site. The point being to take down the wards and flatten the defenders.
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The only thing not canon in post #37 is the bit about actual cannons. Hogwarts is basically four guilds getting together to make a college. Family libraries are still sacred vaults of knowledge a millennium later. The apprentice system was still in place for higher learning in the 1990s. Dumbledore did it under Flammel. Wizard does mean 'wise ones' or 'People that actually have brains'. Dark Lord Grindelwald was all about the Master Race for magicals it was not so much antijew and their supporters pure bloods... likely where the term actually comes from this movement... which is an eugenics movement. The wizarding population moans about the dead of the last hundred years or so and how entire ancient house died off in them. This is all canon.
I subspect the cannons are the game changer, its a matter of timing. That is speculation as noted in post #37. What I can point out is that in book one there is a throw away 'joke' about a psychopathic madwitch, who was one of many apparently. See she knew a charm (a first year charm they were going to teach them) that made flames tickle you instead of burning you. She was the one most famous for using it, though others did this as well. She actually went out and encouraaged witch burning because she enjoyed being burnt at the stake due to this charm. She did this over a dozen times. As rather people being only amused by being burnt at the stake didn't discourage them... we can conclude it did work on other people.
Witches and wizards only became veiled during the Black Death (history). Court wizards and healer witches everywhere.so no reason to subspect a segrigation. In comes the Black Death and panicing people start blaiming the magic users. 'Burn the witch' became a political game. I'm not sure enough on my memory being this purge as the one about wad witch... but I am sure that those with a Hogwarts education had the best chance of surviving the burnings and potion cure the plague.
There are only two forced I can think of that fit the hide like mad motive. Artillery bombardment and that most people couldn't actually go anywhere before the die off and break down of feudalism.
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Also the biggest single cliche in Potterdom:
The Wizarding World a society in decline.
Among its related cliches are:
-Propiganda, which is insane or stupid to outsiders, is the life blood of the MoM.. and even if it directly conflicts with yesterdays Propaganda is taken a Holy Truth by the Sheeple.
-Fudge and Umbridge have stupid high GPP numbers.
-The Dead Relative Lottery is the engine of theWizarding world economy.
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The only thing not canon in post #37 is the bit about actual cannons. Hogwarts is basically four guilds getting together to make a college. Family libraries are still sacred vaults of knowledge a millennium later. The apprentice system was still in place for higher learning in the 1990s. Dumbledore did it under Flammel. Wizard does mean 'wise ones' or 'People that actually have brains'. Dark Lord Grindelwald was all about the Master Race for magicals it was not so much antijew and their supporters pure bloods... likely where the term actually comes from this movement... which is an eugenics movement. The wizarding population moans about the dead of the last hundred years or so and how entire ancient house died off in them. This is all canon.
I subspect the cannons are the game changer, its a matter of timing. That is speculation as noted in post #37. What I can point out is that in book one there is a throw away 'joke' about a psychopathic madwitch, who was one of many apparently. See she knew a charm (a first year charm they were going to teach them) that made flames tickle you instead of burning you. She was the one most famous for using it, though others did this as well. She actually went out and encouraaged witch burning because she enjoyed being burnt at the stake due to this charm. She did this over a dozen times. As rather people being only amused by being burnt at the stake didn't discourage them... we can conclude it did work on other people.
Witches and wizards only became veiled during the Black Death (history). Court wizards and healer witches everywhere.so no reason to subspect a segrigation. In comes the Black Death and panicing people start blaiming the magic users. 'Burn the witch' became a political game. I'm not sure enough on my memory being this purge as the one about wad witch... but I am sure that those with a Hogwarts education had the best chance of surviving the burnings and potion cure the plague.
There are only two forced I can think of that fit the hide like mad motive. Artillery bombardment and that most people couldn't actually go anywhere before the die off and break down of feudalism.
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Also the biggest single cliche in Potterdom:
The Wizarding World a society in decline.
Among its related cliches are:
-Propiganda, which is insane or stupid to outsiders, is the life blood of the MoM.. and even if it directly conflicts with yesterdays Propaganda is taken a Holy Truth by the Sheeple.
-Fudge and Umbridge have stupid high GPP numbers.
-The Dead Relative Lottery is the engine of theWizarding world economy.