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Old 01-26-2011, 04:57 AM   #266 (permalink)
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"You're correct, of course. He was overruled by his cohorts and chose to depart the school some time later, although he was here long enough to be considered a founder and to have an entire house named after him. Although we can't be sure, he was probably here for several years until the issue finally came to a head," Tate nodded at Wilkes.



"No, lad. Genetics work the same, no matter what your magical status. Slytherin's beliefs on marriage with Muggles hasn't been broadly published, so I can't say what his beliefs would do the magical blood lines, but I would suggest that intermarrying with non-magical peoples has been a boon for our kind," Tate wasn't an expert on genetics at all, although even common sense told him that a limited pool of people, in time, would be bad for their community.



"The fact is... the intermarrying of Muggle and magical bloodlines through the centuries is the only reason any of us are here in this room. There's really no such thing as a pureblood in the technical sense anymore, although any family has it's own rules regarding at what point back on the tree they can start crossing Muggles off," Tate shrugged. It was simple fact that with the habit of pureblood families to have few children and the constant interbreeding, that if they had not married outside of the Magical community, the lot of them would have been sterile centuries ago.



"There is no chatting in this class aside from with the topic at hand. You will lose points if I have to speak to you again," Tate barked at the girls before returning to the subject.



"As we've said, the Statute was not in place until 700 years after the school was founded," Tate gave the girl a perplexed look. She was either wildly misinformed or just making things up.

"Most of your information is heavily shaded in rumor and legend, and I would suggested you spend more time reading legitimate history books. Slytherin's interest was in protecting his charges by keeping the school free of outside influences, and he left after a disagreement with Gryffindor, whom he always considered a close friend."



"I suggest you reign in that temper, child, before you lose your house points," Tate raised his eyebrow at the irate Gryffindor. Why was she flying off the handle?

"We're not discussing the rumors regarding the basilisk today, or the reasons that anyone would have created the Chamber of Secrets, so theories and guesses are not necessary. I do think that the question regarding where Salazar went after Hogwarts is a pertinent one. Where would our Founder, disappointed at the failure to implement his plan, head after leaving Hogwarts? I'll allow speculation and theories to abound at this point."



OOC: Yup, that time again. I'm leaving this open for ideas and class related discourse (NO FIGHTING!), but I'll be back tomorrow night at 6:30 EST.
"I never said that it was a bad thing. Just in my family we haven't ever married muggles. Half-bloods and Muggle borns may be in my family tree, but not actually someone who has never had magic. My main point sir is that at that point in time I don't believe that anyone was really thinking about whether 'diluting' our blood by marrying muggles was a good idea or not. Genetics in that sense wasn't important, back then being a pureblood was, but the whole limiting the gene pool and the problems that could cause wasn't considered. And even if it was I think the fear of persecution would have stopped most people from even considering if it was a good idea or not." Sakura finished with a shrug. Who was she to really argue about the genetics of current Pureblooded people.

"As for where Salazar may have went after Hogwarts... He could have gone to another school, maybe a smaller one than Hogwarts where people agreed that only Pureblood's could be allowed to study magic."

"I have nothing against muggle borns," Sakura said to the girl who looked like she was going to have a panic attack. I was just talking about the perspective they had in the past. Not my perspective now. I mean I'm proud to be a Pureblood but I don't think it's bad if you aren't. It really doesn't matter much anymore." she finished, giving the girl a small smile.
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