Hogwarts and Medieval Education

The Founders

Wemyss has an excellent essay on the Founders’ geographical origins here, placing Godric in the moors of the West Country, Salazar in the Fenlands of East Anglia, Helga as a Viking descendant in Wales, and Rowena as a Saxon whose family ended up in Scotland. I wonder a bit more about Salazar’s origins here). But this raises another question: how did they meet and decide to form a school, and how did they gain enough magical knowledge to be qualified teachers in the first place?

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