I cannot believe that I’ve only thought of this after almost a decade of being in the Harry Potter fandom, but…
The Moon Landing happened in 1969.
One year before The First Wizarding War started.
It happened during summer.
Just imagine, on the first of September, all of the muggleborns and even some half-bloods talking up a storm about The Moon Landing.
Some pure-blood fanatic bullying a muggleborn and them just responding with: “For all your superiority, has any pure-blood actually been to the bloody Moon? No? Well, the muggles have!” And the pure-bloods of course don’t want to believe them, so the Muggleborn is like: “I have receipts!” and just slams a stack of newspapers with the articles about Apollo 11.
Now of course, the pure-bloods completely deny that stupid muggles without magic could have gone to the Moon.
It is now my headcannon that that’s how the conspiracy theories about The Mood Landing being fake are started. The pure-bloods keep denying it so hard, it leaks into the muggle world.












