[HPforGrownups] political awareness and Hogsmeade

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3995

foxmoth at qnet.com wrote:

>         I keep wondering when it will occur to Hermione to ask exactly how
> Hogsmeade is maintained as an all-wizarding village. Some form of
> wizard apartheidt? (horrors!)

I don't think they mean strictly wizard inhabitants. I think they mean
everyone lives and operates in the wizarding world. Muggles can move in that
world, as witnessed by the Muggle students--the problem is *getting* there.
Muggles can live in Hogsmeade, if they work there or married a witch or
wizard--but their paper is the Daily Prophet, it comes by owl, they get paid
in Galleons, etc. At least that's how I interpreted it.

--Amanda