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Chapter 57: origin of the statue of secrecy

Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling
Earth’s Children is owned by Jean Auel


It started with an argument between two brothers over a unicorn . . . .

. . . It turned into a massive war between the centaur clans that affected their neighbors and their neighbors.

But the 5th century Roman, Persian, and Chinese Empires didn’t know about the centaur war. They only knew about the waves of barbarians that spilled over their frontiers. The other empires were weakened, but West Roman Empire did not survive.

The feudal period that followed was dominated by wizards and war-bear riding knights in increasingly heavy, increasingly complex armor. Being able to ride a war bear became a mark of nobility . . . one that couldn’t be faked. Though, often, knights would be accompanied by commoner cavalry mounted on Snorkacks. Some breeds of Snorkack were a big as horses.

Horses had been domesticated too, but were not as popular as Riding Snorkacks, except amongst the upper-lower class. Riding a horse was considered one step above riding an ox-cart. But horses grew in popularity as a draft animal after the invention of the steel plow and the horse-collar that allowed the tough sod of Northern Europe to be farmed.

Cows had been domesticated too, but were not as popular as Milch Snorkacks because the flavor of cow’s milk was not as good. Cows only grew into large numbers in the 20th century, with the advent of factory farming and the Meatrix.

There were specially breeds of Snorkacks for wool too. But since they could only produce iridescent purple, green or orange wool, other colors, like white, black or brown, had to come from other animals like Sheep, mohair goats, angora rabbits and alpacas.

1492 turned out to be a critical year in history. After, King Ferdinand of Argon and Queen Isabella of Castile pushed the Moors out of Iberia and declared a combined Kingdom of Spain, they turned the inquisition on their Muslim, Jewish and Magical Subjects. As a result, The Queen’s Court Wizard went into hiding and sent and owl to every Witch and Wizard in Spain declaring himself King of Magical Spain and institution of a Statute of Secrecy, separating the Magical world from the Muggle world.

Other European Kingdoms soon followed Spain in instituting their own Statutes of Secrecy. And as the muggle Nations of Europe set out to colonize the rest of the world, the separation of the magical and muggle spread throughout the world.

As part of this separation, muggle history was re-written to remove magical references. In the new version of history, the Mongols and Huns were not enormous Centaur herds, but instead, were renamed after muggle tribes in central Asia.

The 15th Century was also when gunpowder began to effective as a weapon. As a result, massed formations of commoners wielding pikes and arquebuses replaced knights. This caused war-bears to fall out of use and become a curiosity. So when the Americas were colonized, the conquistadores rode Snorkacks, not war-bears. And it was Snorkacks that were adopted as steeds by the plains Indian tribes. It wasn’t until Buffalo Bill Cody took his Wild West show on tour in Europe that many of the Indian Leaders got a chance to discover that they could ride war-bears.