"Mmh... maybe I was wrong to talk about the Inquisition specifically... But it was later, in the Fourteenth Century, that Witch burnings happened. At those times Muggles were particularly afraid of magic but not very good at recognizing it, Wendolin the Weird burned at the stake 47 in various desguised with the aid of a Fire Freezing Charm, as you must already know... But that was very much later, while now we are talkng about 1000 a.C. I might be wrong, of course, but I can't see how there were so many wizards hired to kill dragons of magic was so repudied by the church who, you are righ there, already had a lot of power. The kings wouldn't allow the wizards to exist if persecutions were headed by the governors, I'm guessing..."