"During his time there, Sal had a number of friends who lived in villages attacked by roving bands of Vatican-endorsed bandits who scoured the landscape looking for those who did not follow the doctrines of the Church. Those who were active dissenters, or even just accused of possibly being dissenters were executed as a warning to others. Those muggleborns Sal viewed as unworthy were the ones who had relatives who eagerly turned in their magical neighbors."