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Isn't it awfully *convenient* that prevailing conditions at a thousand-year-old school prevent teleportation (other than highly uncomfortable and awkward forms) and the use of electronics?
Doesn't this suggest to you that at some point in the past Hogwarts was, in fact, under assault from a technologically advanced foe?
Supposing 'pureblood' and 'mudblood' referred,at one time, *not* to wizarding status- but to the possibility of compromised humans? Wizards who had been abducted and tampered with by the aliens attempting to invade the Earth?
Throw in a Great Fire or two that wrecks the original library and paintings for the most part, and the truth about Hogwarts' role is lost. Mudblood goes from being a derogatory lab-wizard term for potentially traitorous wizzen to a more generic term; the aliens are by and large forgotten; but the oldest parts of the castle remain. As do their contents.
Salazar designed the Basilisk to devour compromised students, and Gryffindor wanted the brave because they were going to have to face a threat unlike any the world of a thousand years ago had known, and Rowena was gathering the research team, and Helga insisted on including any kid with wizarding talent because otherwise God alone knew how they'd fare against the invaders...
... the Black Oil Aliens of the X-Files.
(Or not. You could throw in quite a few alien races, really, it's just that 'mudblood' seemed to link rather nicely to Black Oil Alien possession. However, it has been suggested that an actual mudlike alien race would be excellent reason to keep a giant snake with a Petrifying stare on hand.)
Doesn't this suggest to you that at some point in the past Hogwarts was, in fact, under assault from a technologically advanced foe?
Supposing 'pureblood' and 'mudblood' referred,at one time, *not* to wizarding status- but to the possibility of compromised humans? Wizards who had been abducted and tampered with by the aliens attempting to invade the Earth?
Throw in a Great Fire or two that wrecks the original library and paintings for the most part, and the truth about Hogwarts' role is lost. Mudblood goes from being a derogatory lab-wizard term for potentially traitorous wizzen to a more generic term; the aliens are by and large forgotten; but the oldest parts of the castle remain. As do their contents.
Salazar designed the Basilisk to devour compromised students, and Gryffindor wanted the brave because they were going to have to face a threat unlike any the world of a thousand years ago had known, and Rowena was gathering the research team, and Helga insisted on including any kid with wizarding talent because otherwise God alone knew how they'd fare against the invaders...
... the Black Oil Aliens of the X-Files.
(Or not. You could throw in quite a few alien races, really, it's just that 'mudblood' seemed to link rather nicely to Black Oil Alien possession. However, it has been suggested that an actual mudlike alien race would be excellent reason to keep a giant snake with a Petrifying stare on hand.)
