Isn't pretty much any historical text also historical evidence?
Maybe you mean archeological evidence, or corroberating historical evidence?
Maybe you mean archeological evidence, or corroberating historical evidence?
The Pentateuch is a work of mythology. There is strong textual evidence that it's a compilation of many different stories and sources over the course of many years. It was most likely written centuries after the events it purports to describe. It is full of wildly unrealistic claims.
No. People make up stories. Obviously. Harry potter isn't historical evidence of the magical abilities of past humans.
In the future, when humans just upload data directly to brains, and nobody remembers what a school is, then Harry Potter absolutely could be used as historical evidence that schools existed and that children went to them. The fantastical bit about learning to be a wizard may be discarded by other evidence (or lack thereof).
Sewers are real. Turtles are real. Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles real?
The other evidence for a school must be conclusive. Only from that evidence could you then say Harry Potter's schools were real. It's the other evidence that is evidence. Not harry potter.
Anything in Harry Potter not proven by something else, must be assumed to be fantasy.