You're right. I was committing the too common of error of thinking of the 1000s as the 10th century, not the 11th and doing the math wrong in my head.
But actually, since the Great Schism was less than 1000 years ago, it strengthens my point. It hadn't happened yet when Hogwarts would have been founded, so the Pope was still busy fighting the Patriarch, thus his attention was elsewhere, not on what some "ordinary" (i.e. not King Ethelred, not Queen Emma) person in England, be they Muggle or Wizard, was doing.
Therefore, since there would have been no persecution going on, there would have been nothing for the Wizarding World to notice in this regard, and nothing to inform the speakers comments. The witchhunts don't ramp up until centuries laters - when Salazar Slytherin would have already been dead.
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Date: 2008-04-29 10:26 am (UTC)But actually, since the Great Schism was less than 1000 years ago, it strengthens my point. It hadn't happened yet when Hogwarts would have been founded, so the Pope was still busy fighting the Patriarch, thus his attention was elsewhere, not on what some "ordinary" (i.e. not King Ethelred, not Queen Emma) person in England, be they Muggle or Wizard, was doing.
Therefore, since there would have been no persecution going on, there would have been nothing for the Wizarding World to notice in this regard, and nothing to inform the speakers comments. The witchhunts don't ramp up until centuries laters - when Salazar Slytherin would have already been dead.