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Riley furrowed his brow in thought for a few moments. The Gryffindor didn't want to shout out just any stupid answer. Well seeing as, how the legend goes, the Cult of Walpurgis was beleived to stem the Death Eaters....
"Professor, wasn't the Cult of Walpurgis obsessed with Muggles?" that didn't sound right. "I mean, weren't they wary of them? They didn't want Muggles to know the powers of our magic." he finished unsurely.
"I believe you mean the Knights. The Knights of Walpurgis. The, er... Cult is another thing." For the first time, Tate felt a rising panic. He was probably making a mistake teaching this class at all.
"But the Knights were concerned about Muggles for sure, especially in keeping magic from them."
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HaRoHeGiNeLu Knights of Wal-iwhat?
Sure, Ellie MIGHT have heard of them at SOME point in her life, but she didn't KNOW about them. Really. At all. They sounded really cool, though. She wanted to be a knight.
Huzzah! And swish, swish!
"That only purebloods should be taught magic. Which totally made sense. Back then. Like we talked about already." So no need to get into that again, right?
Besides, all kinds of blood lineage magical people are taught now. Like her mommy.
"Magic should be limited to those of magical lineage," Tate added it to their list and hoped everyone was taking good notes.
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Saiai "I believe we can assume that the Knights were obsessed with blood purity and were therefore definitely against muggle borns becoming part of our society. I believe though that they would have masked their actual prejudice behind rational explanations about why we should be separate from muggles, using fear tactics most likely to persuade people to believe as they did. That muggles, and muggle borns are dangerous to us, and that we therefore should be kept separate from those who may, and were, doing us harm." Sakura answered, tone unsure. It was probably the right answer, but if it wasn't she didn't want to sound overly confident.
"I'll add... they believed Muggles and Muggleborns were dangerous and that we should keep separated from them out of self-preservation," Tate agreed with that point and ignored the rest as speculation. Hadn't she been paying attention at all?
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Emily_Potter Emily nodded as she took down notes. Founding member...founding member... she repeated to herself in her head.
Emily raised her hand, "Well they obviously believed that magical learning should remain within magical families, in order to protect them from persecution because muggle borns and those with non-magic heritage or even to an extent mixed heritage were deemed untrustworthy because they may hold true to their ancestors- which of course would go against the wizarding community."
"Yes, exactly," Tate nodded at the girl.
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Anna Banana Nodding just once, Sierra tried to let the many different facts she was hearing sink deeply into her brain. Her knowledge of this Knights of Walpurgis group was pretty small, despite the fact she'd heard her father mention something about them once or twice before.
Nevertheless, it didn't seem all that difficult to piece things together and make a decent conclusion. So if Salazar Slytherin was connected to this group somehow, and if he possibly sought them out after his plans for Hogwarts failed, then...
"So this group also believed that pure-bloods were better?" Sierra half-asked, half-suggested. "So they would have aligned themselves with Slytherin's way of thinking when it came to who should or shouldn't attend Hogwarts."
"Better, perhaps. Safer, definitely."
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ArianaBlack Nika had no idea. She is a muggle-born so for most of the lesson so far she kept quiet. Upon hearing the question she smiled and raised her hand. If the Knights of Walpurgis happened to believe in what they were discussing early it's not that hard to figure out what the stand for. "Well Professor, I am not actually sure, but I am going to guess that they were really into the dark arts and they believed that muggles and muggleborns should be eliminated. Basically I think that they believe in order to be worth something you must be a pureblood." She finished looking at the professor hoping that he would acknowledge her answer.
"I'm glad you brought that up. Not that it's true, but the whole Dark Arts aspect... we discussed Dark Wizards earlier. But have we said anything in what Slytherin believed and what the Knights stood for to indicate they were Dark Wizards?"