Macbeth a muggle? (was Re: Two questions..)

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 9343

dherreid wrote:

>Thanks for your ideas Amy and Peg! Although the scenes are remarkably 
>similar Macbeth is just a muggle and should have been surprised at 
the 
>appearance of his victims. To my mind Voldemorte should not have been 
>un-nerved by what he should have known to be mere smokey echoes.

Oh, I don't think Macbeth was a muggle.  He just didn't know he was a 
wizard, no Hagrid having ever shown up to inform him.

Proof:

He conjures up a dagger out of thin air (the dagger IS thin air, but 
never mind that)

He takes Polyjuice Potion ("[We must] make our faces vizards to our 
hearts, / Disguising what they are" Act III, Scene ii)

"I bear a charmed life" Act V, Scene viii

"Deny me this, /And an eternal curse fall on you!"  Act IV, Scene i

He spends a lot of his spare time with witches.

<g>
Amy Z

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