We'd never ever, ever, EVER have thought that 'JK Rowling' and 'mistake' would ever go together in the same sentence
Aside from 'It would be a mistake to think that JK Rowling would ever make a mistake'.
But it appears we've made a mistake.
This is because she made a MISTAKE in her latest Harry Potter Pottermore story.
But don't fret, it wasn't 'so to sum up, Voldemort was really a very good person' or anything like that – it was just a little bit of historical inaccuracy.
We forgive her.
Can ya spot it?
Here's the story:
MACUSA relocated to Baltimore, where President Able Fleming had his home, but the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, followed by the arrival of the No-Maj Congress in the city, made MACUSA understandably nervous and they departed for Washington.
It was in Washington that President Elizabeth McGilliguddy presided over the infamous ‘Country or Kind?’ debate of 1777. Thousands of witches and wizards from all over America descended upon MACUSA to attend this extraordinary meeting, for which the Great Meeting Chamber had to be magically enlarged.
The issue for discussion was: did the magical community owe their highest allegiance to the country in which they had made their homes, or to the global underground wizarding community? Were they morally obliged to join American No-Majs in their fight for liberation from the British Muggles? Or was this, simply put, not their fight?
Unfortunately, our 18th Century American politics knowledge isn't the best in the world, so we could only tell by the ensuing backlash post-publication.
It turns out that Washington wasn't founded until 1790, and JK says there was a debate there in 1777.
HMMMMMM.
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