Magic in North America: Society Affairs

History of Magic in North America is separated in 4 parts and while each part expands on the previous it also rehashes it. As stated in the previous post, 'Visions of the New World', Witches and Wizards left the old world in fear of prosecution by No-Majs and their own kind. They came to America and found a haven among the native tribes with a warm welcome. In reality the natives did welcome the europeans but cautiously. As Europeans saw a meaning of trade, so did some of the natives.

Given the title of this passage, this is the 14th century(1301-1400), the visitors from Europe like John Smith (which may not have been his true name) came in the 1600s is still the case in the wizarding history. But why did they leave Europe? Witches, Wizards, Muggles of families and workers alike. The first paragraph mentions one large detail and that would be authorities, thou what authority? The British Ministry of Magic was not founded yet, not until 1707 with Ulick Gamp in office(1707-1718). However, Wizengamot existed into the Medieval era and officially in 1544 before merging into the Ministry as the Department of Magical Law Enforcement in 1707. Interestingly, the American Ministry of Magic predated the British Ministry(1707-present), No-Maj Congress(1789-present), and the French Ministry of Magic(1790, the year of the 15th President was elected into office, President Emily Rapport).

1790 was when Benjamin Franklin passed away and George Washington was elected into office as America's first president. The first President in the Magical Congress was in 1693, Josiah Jackson.

As far as authority goes in the 1600s, and why people left is because of authority but whose? In part it is was the government that already owned the nation and Christianity was fully developed as the one true religion by then (as stated in the previous post). They wanted a country free of it all, which is why the leaders of the new nation were called Freemasons, freemen. It is therefore possible that the magical community left because of the muggles. Despite that being surrounded by the harsh world in Europe, in America it was even harsher with no useful features, the fusion of No-Majs and Magical had lots of feuds (which the passage states in the first sentence how it was lovable but feels sarcastic as they had arguments) and, while the Puritans did go after anyone with a sign of witchcraft, the witches had to deal with a similar group of people called Scourers. Scourers are members of tribes who are descended from magical families with no magic themselves. They are squibs and hates anyone with magic as they don't have it themselves and went after witches and non-witches during the infamous Salem Witch Trials in 1693(17th century). When American history and their history conjoined for the first time. The Scourers went into the 18th, 19th, and even 20th century with a specific name Barebone.

The Scourers could have also predated the Snatchers in the Harry Potter series and timeline of the 90s albite much worse.

I did go into the Salem Witch Trials in the previous post when indicating how the Natives would be punished for their beliefs. Salam is small city in Massachusetts named after Jerusalem. The witches who was murdered innocently has a memorial in MACUSA as its own form of the British Ministry's Brethren statue of a wizard, witch, centaur, house elf, and goblin(an example of the magical congress becoming more and more like the ministry as the days go by).

Much of what i can say here about this section of history is said in the other post. From this point on, I can say other details. It stated that non-magicals are a higher population in America than Europes, due to the presence scourers and puritans, the magical community in Europe never came to America in the early 20th century. Some Witches left America after the trials and never came back. This could explain the film, 'Fantastic Beasts', there are a large number of No-Majs to even focus on then the witches (6 magicals and 8+ non-magicals). Now, this paragraph mentions Pure-Blood families. I know that some even asked and asks questions around pure-blood and the Ilvermorny. Blood type is a large theme in the Harry Potter series nad can define the relationship between characters. Pure-Blood is an all magical family like the Gaunts, Muggle-Born are witches and wizards whose parents are non-magicals (this is a question in itself as Hermione is a witch with two muggle parents and American Wandmaker Johannes Jonkers in the 1920s had muggle parents. It is a question as that J.K Rowling only focuses on the characters parents and not the whole family. The thought is that there must be someone of magical descent previously for a muggle-born to have such power.) Squibs are the reversal of Muggle-borns, they do not have magical powers but his/her parents do. These blood types and questions, in 'Fantastic Beasts' largely surrounds Credence, who we know has magical tendencies.

The passage states that Pure-Blood families hardly went to America. I think ever went to America due to that everyone would easily be targeted. This suggests the Gaunts will not be present in America, and may not be present in the new series. Scourers do not make a presence in the films, unfortunately, nor do Puritans. This gives the higher rate of No-Majs but most importantly is this: As stated, many question rather or not Ilvermorny allows pure-bloods and even muggle-borns in and that would largely connect to the governments view of what is an issue and not. 'While these witches and wizards often went on to marry and found their own all-magical families, the pure-blood ideology that has dogged much of Europe’s magical history has gained far less traction in America.' Hence, Pure-Bloods are not an issue in America. More non-magicals, less magicals, no pure-bloods even. So, maybe, Pure-Bloods are not present in Ilvermorny, least not as present. This also brings light to Isolt Sayre who is a relative of a pure-blood family and whose lineage ended with her daughter. THERE IS NO PURE-BLOOD WIZARDING FAMILIES IN AMERICA.

The only problem they really had was Scourers and Puritans, and they were sentenced to death if caught. Only one known scourer remained alive and had a family. The execution is Jackson's doing and remained as the congresses way of dealing with criminals. They never killed Grindelwald because simply he does not belong there and is to be dealt with in Europe. Today, execution is still a prominent law in some states. While execution is a method used in 1693 by Josiah Jackson in the wizarding world, Texas was the first to perform it in 1982. This feature of american identity is in par with another detail about an asylum for the insane.

The last paragraph aims at beliefs that scourers had of anti-magic. It revisits the detail on how No-Majs would pretend to have magic and, when in the presence of scourers, they can't fool them. I think of doctors who pretends to be witch doctors and targets Animagi as skin-walkers. When they say that to scourers, they merely walk away with a tight serious face.

While J.K. goes into this in her book excerpts, the film has a prop of a book by Theophilus Abbot who was a historian who wrote about them in Scourers and the Creation of MACUSA. Given his last name, it is safe to say he is a relative of Hannah Abbot, who went to Hogwarts alongside Harry Potter in the 90s and sorted into Hufflepuff. She married Neville Longbottom who is currently a teacher of Herbology in Hogwarts.

The history of America is darker and broodier then Europes before the leave and will be even with the revolutionary war.