[HPforGrownups] Re: Separation from Muggles (was: A Hogwarts education

[morine10 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 6267

In a message dated Fri, 1 Dec 2000  1:42:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Rita Winston" <catlady at wicca.net> writes:

<< --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> 
wrote:

>Not segregated enough to prevent intermarriage.

I agree.  However, I don't think it's all that common.  Just enough to keep the wizards from dying out.  And those Muggles that do know of the Wizarding community seem to keep it pretty quiet.  On one side you have the Dursleys who don't want anyone to know about their relationship with that world because of it being odd and different.  Then you have those that keep it quiet I would think just to protect themselves and their loved ones.  

>Wizardry makes forging documents, AND their reflection >in distant 
>files or computer databases, trivially easy. Maybe it >also provides 
>ways to learn Muggle skills, such as driving a car or >speaking 
>nother language or doing Calculus, instantaneously or >overnight. 
>Suppose there were a Potion that would give truth to >the old school 
>child theory that if you went to sleep with your head >on an open 
>textbook instead of a pillow, you would wake in the >morning knowing 
>everything in that textbook? 

Magic can't solve everything, I think we have learned that.  I don't know how easy it would be to charm computers and Muggle technology since we know that they tend not to work all that well in the presence of magic.  I would also like to think that you would need to know a little something about how the technology works before you can cast a spell to manipulate it.  Look at Arthur's car.  Sure he made it fly, but it still couldn't handle the long trip to Hogwarts.  

We Muggles can forge documents and cheat on tests just as easily, but most people don't.  People have ethics and morals that keep them from doing wrong - in both worlds.  

-Mo
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