But like No-Majs living in the New World, hardship didnt only come from the conditions.

People, magical or not, can be real jerks too.

The Scourers were mercenaries who began as the earliest form of wizarding law enforcement in the New World.

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When they eventually became corrupted, the climate went from bad to worse.

After the hysteria, wizards fled and those elsewhere in the world were dissuaded from coming here.

This caused the percentage of pure-blood New World wizards to fall and the No-Maj-born population to grow.