Where wizards live

[vjmerri]

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From: vjmerri
Subject: Re: Where wizards live
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6837] Re: Where wizards live
Date: 8/15/00 11:48 pm  (ET)

By: potterpotty
Date: 8/14/00 10:40 am

They would have preferred the obscurity I suppose so as not to be
ostracised , but it was mentioned in one of the books that if the
wizarding world had not inter-married, "their kind" would have died out
or something to that effect. They had to cope with marrying and living
with Muggles.

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which leads to the interesting question of where do the half and half
marriages live? In the muggle world? In the wizarding world, where the
non magic spouse is bound to feel inadequate? Or on some teeter-totter
in between.

I'd really like to learn more about Seamus' home life. It's possible that
not ALL the witches and wizards in the world are as muggle ignorant as the
ones we've met. Frankly, I think that Mr. Weasley should realistically
know more about muggles than he seems to, given the department that he
works for. He should be a muggle expert, and able to pass among them at
least for brief periods of time.

However, JKR consistently portrays him as __thinking__ he knows about
muggles, and being fascinated by muggle doings, but as someone who really
doesn't know much about them and who couldn't pass for a muggle for ten
minutes without giving himself away as a very strange person.

Maybe other wizards really can pass for muggles. After all, if you're a
very good wizard then you could use magic in the privacy of your own home
with no one being the wiser (as I do now think that Arabella Figg does. I
really like the idea espoused by others of Arabella Figg guarding Harry.)

Vicki