Wizard existence to Muggle government?

[LynnP333 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16734

***Cristin observed:
***
Fudge has been criticized by come members of the International Federation of 
Warlocks for 

informing the Muggle Prime Minister of the crisis.

<snip>
Now, since Fudge simply reported the incident directly to the PM, we must 
assume that the 

Muggle government is, if nothing else, aware of the existence of the 
wizarding world - 

<snip>
We would, I suppose, have to then extrapolate that then most, if not all, of 
the important 

world governments and organizations would be aware of the wizarding world.


How then, do you suppose each countries respective Ministry keeps the gov'ts 
and 

organizations quiet?  It can't just be the leader of each country.  Past 
leaders, going back 

quite far, would have to have known.  As well as advisors, etc.  And these 
individuals would 

not have family in the Wizarding World, and so little incentive to keep them 
quiet.  wizards 

would have to be going around doing memory charms constantly, IMO.


Any ideas on how the relations would work?

****

Interesting can of worms you opened Cristin!
I can imagine a combination of memory charms and working with special 
government divisions to keep things quiet.  I also don't think any individual 
in the various governments would bother to speak up about the wizarding world 
 and be seen as of a some kind of nut case and possibly risk their career.  

Muggle leaders and the other government officials dealing with the wizards 
IMO, would always be aware of the power wizards actually hold over them.  
This in itself makes me believe Muggles and wizards can only come to an 
uneasy coexistence.  As much as the majority of wizards may feel benign 
toward Muggles, the Muggles would always know that the wizards hold an 
unbelievable power over them if they chose to use it.  I can actually see a 
lot more hostility from the Muggle side toward wizards, than from the wizard 
side toward Muggles, if the two worlds came together.  Perhaps the leaders of 
the muggle world and wizard world realized this and thought it best to keep 
the two apart for both their sakes?  I could see some tempation of some 
Muggle leaders to exploit the wizards, and maybe they've even tried in the 
past, but I don't think they'd have had much success. <g!>  
It would be interesting to read a book called 'A History of Muggle and Wizard 
Relations' in the Hogwarts library. :-)

Lynn