Terry always enjoyed learning about the different events in the history of any civilization. People fascinate him, both the living and the dead. It was how somethings in one part of the world causes rebellions and others found it to be the cause of peace. How technology was worshiped here and thought of as magic there. Magical history was no different, but instead of slavery of a people, it was an entire species. Rebellions were the same though, being put down for being different and therefore, being inferior.
That is why he loved learning about the Goblin Rebellion in the fourth year.
He went to respond to the first question when the second caught him off guard. He never really thought about it that way, he just accepted the fact that they had odd names. Cultures did things like that everywhere, especially in Slavic and Russian cultures.
"I doubt that," he responded lightly. "Ivan the Terrible probably wasn't always a jerk, but the name stuck. And Catherine the Great was killed by her own horse."
The boy shrugged and tried to remember what he was about to say before.
"Oh, right the rebellion... Well the first rebellion was their way of proving to the wizarding worked that they were not animals on the same level as a kappa or something. If you remember, not every species was thought of as a being. Werewolves are still debated today, but that's because they're magical form can't make a good argument, but goblins are very self aware and we treated them as though they were nothing more than a work horse."