[HPforGrownups] Re: Rowling's muggles

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 31006


Thursday, December 06, 2001, 1:41:06 PM, lucky_kari wrote:

l> Here's a list of Muggles mentioned in the stories

l> ...

l> 4. Harry's classmates - a)Dudley's gang including Piers Polkiss - 
l> horrible brats, b) the others - cowards who wouldn't go near Harry

Typical schoolkids.

l> 7. Lily's parents (mentioned by Petunia) - really enthusiastic to 
l> have a witch in the family

I imagine Lily's parents to have been dreamers, believers in fairies.
The kind of Muggles that I think frequently spawns the Muggle-borns.

l> 2. The Grangers - very nice, rendered rather justly nervous about the 
l> wizarding world.

Especially with Lucius there.

l> 3. Creevey Sr. - what was his job again?

Isn't he a milkman?  (Being a Wizard probably a bit more lucretive.)

l> 2. The Villagers - Rather prejudiced and gossippy

So are many Wizards, or else "that Skeeter woman" would be out of business.

l> 4. The Smeltings School Nurse - Recognized the fact that Dudley 
l> needed help!

And other Smeltings employees apparently complained about Dudley's
bullying, which is more than my teachers ever did.

l> If you feel bad about him, like me, remember he probably woke next 
l> day to find he was a VERY rich man. 

:)

-- 
Dave  (Whose grammar school's favorite pastime was called
       "David hunting")