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Originally Posted by chaos_animagic
The thing for me is... how can Lawrence not know Horo can read?... Horo is like super wise and can solve lots of problems... and she have lived for a long time, she's bound to know the stuffs humans do (reading, writing, talking, listening...)
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It was already discussed it before -
1.Very little people know how to read.
2.She is surprised by church power in S1, meaning that she never faced the church as it is now, which also means that she did not had many chances to learn reading or writing as the church is the prime source of that. from noble but
3. Her human form is a woman. Woman were counted as a lower creatures (at first even soulless beings) by the chruch. Only a little better than dogs and other pets, thus there was no need to teach them such things as writing or reading.
4. The only way for her to learn was nobles, but she never hand around in society alll that long and not around nobles too and common people do not know how to read or write.
5. Most of the time she spends watching common people (who do not know how to read or write) from afar. How can she learn reading or writing if she only very rarely come into society? More so a village society that cannot read?
So most definitely Horo is not bound to know how to read or write. Those skills come from learning (when someone teaches) rather than from observing or from old age.