J.K. Rowling Just Revealed A Major Moment In American Wizarding History
Here’s why wizards in North America were driven deeper underground in the late 18th century.
Thursday morning, J.K. Rowling released the third installment of her new writing about magic in America on Pottermore. You can read the first installment here, and the second here.
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We learned something that may reverberate through every other story involving the American wizarding world.
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After a catastrophic breach in the International Statute of Secrecy, a law was instituted in 1790 to completely segregate American wizards from the No-Maj community.
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Dorcus Twelvetress, the daughter of a high-ranking MACUSA official, fell for a No-Maj named Bartholomew Barebone, who happened to believe that the magical community was wrought with evil.
As we learned in Wednesday's installment, Scourers were a cruel group of wizarding mercenaries who trafficked their fellow witches and wizards and passed on a deep-seated hatred of the magical community to their descendants. Barty here was one of those decsendants.
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