[HPforGrownups] Relationship between the Muggle & the Wizarding World

[Alfredo Ramírez]

No: HPFGUIDX 24186

Most of the questions and issues have been answered already, but there are a
few points I’d like to address from this post.

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Additionally, I don't know how the Muggle kids survive without the
electronic pastimes out kids can't be without. No TV. No movies. No
computers. No electronic games. No Nintendo. It is highly unrealistic to
expect all of the Wizarding kiddies to sit and read or play card games all
day. What a highly boring life. Why would a child want to have such a life
when there is such an exciting electronic life out there?

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Regardless of whether wizard children are ever introduced to such things as
computer or Nintendo’s, they have interesting things to do in their own
world. For example:

1)      Exploding Snap. I don’t recall what this is, but I remember
Hermione, Ron and Harry playing this at Hogwarts.
2)      Chess. Sure, it might seem boring but becomes much more interesting
once the pieces are sentient. =)
3)      There was that marbles game where the marbles spit some smelly thing
into the winner’s eyes.
4)      Quidditch. I for one would trade in my computer for the chance to
play on flying broomsticks. =)

There are undoubtedly more things that little wizard children can play, I
just can’t think of any right now. =)

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Another question that perturbs me is the apparent pride of being wizard, and
the knocking down of the Muggles. It smacks reminiscent of the Third Reich--
WE are the master race, and THEY, are just lowly Muggles. Mind you, there
are several billion muggles living in this world, and only a few thousand
Wizards who are not known, and hardly know each other.

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I feel it’s important to point out that not _all_ wizards feel contempt for
Muggles. Yes, there are those like Draco Malfoy and his father, but not
everyone is like that. They’re just different, making them rather strange.
Much as we can’t understand how wizard children can do without Playstation
2, they can’t understand how we do without Floo Powder or the like. This
does not mean they consider us inferior. Arthur Weasley for example, seems
to admire Muggles to some extent. He’s always commenting on the amazing
lengths Muggles have gone to survive without magic. So yes, there are wizard
Bigots (much like there are Muggle Bigots), but not everyone is like that.

Also, your comment on the population ratio between Wizards and Muggles
pretty much answers your other questions. How do Wizards survive without
raising attention? They’re like needles in a haystack. How many Muggles
probably encounter a Wizard in their lifetime, and assuming they encounter
one, that’s only a single strange individual. Muggles can be pretty crazy
too, I’d say Wizards can blend in rather easily.

JB



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