[HPforGrownups] Re: Mindy: Some possible avenues of thought.

[Yis M Koslowitz]

No: HPFGUIDX 24297



On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:27:45 +0800 "Alexandra Y. Kwan"
<litalex at yahoo.com> writes:
> Hello,
> 
> From: "Yis M Koslowitz" <tkoz1 at juno.com>
> > I don't understand why it's necessary to go out into the Muggle 
> world.
> 
> Well, we were talking about only Muggle-born students, where it 
> would be
> necessary for the child to be in a some school on record (the 
> parents will
> go to jail if their kid isn't going to school, no?).  So, to keep 
> Hogwarts a
> secret and the lower officials happy, wouldn't you need some sort of 
> a front
> for Hogwarts regarding Muggle-born students?  Actually, talking 
> about that,
> why haven't social services or some such gone to the Dursleys to ask 
> them
> why they are keeping a certain Harry Potter from an education?
> 
> > It's a little bigoted to
> > assume that wizards would NEED to live in our world. I'm still a
> 
> I didn't assume that, but if Hogsmeade is the only village with a 
> completely
> wizard population, the logical conclusion is that the rest of the 
> wizards
> live within Muggle neighborhoods.  And we were talking about the
> wizards/witches who choose to move into the Muggle world (decided to 
> marry a
> Muggle, whatever).
> 
> little Alex
OK, thanks for clarifying. I still think there's some cross polination
between the two governments, so all could be taken care of by a secret
computer code that is magically reinforced to be unnoticeable. Harry's
name comes up and is immediately associated with this code and it looks
legit. 
As far as living in the Muggle world, you could still get a job in a
wizard factory, making cauldrons for example, and choose to draw your
salary from Gringotts in Muggle money.
And living in the muggle world just means inhabiting it. It doesn't
necessarily mean participating in it. My neighbor could be a witch
married to a wizard, and they'd look totally normal to me - both going
off to jobs ,etc. 
Robyn