Most came for the same reason Muggles did, but there was notably a higher percentage of Muggle-borns and half-bloods who saw the New World as a more opportune place for people like them. (Many of these became the "New Colonials," adopting all the pretensions of Old World pureblood families, without having to demonstrate the bloodline to prove it.) There were other reasons as well...
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Re: A short history of Wizarding America
Date: 2012-08-09 03:22 am (UTC)