MUGGLE/WIZARD RELATIONS

[clunyusa at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30029

I find your question interesting and very deep.

It seems to me that the Harry Potter story is a highly symbolic one and that the answers to 
these queries lies in the symbolic meanings.

Here's some of what I am thinking:  all the world is one great reality.  Within that reality 
there are tensions between various elements, be they wizards or muggles, dark or light 
magic, etc. The Muggles without any awareness represent  one end of the spectrum - a 
consciousness of only what is perceived through the physical senses, and a lack of 
awareness of the subconscious and the spiritual.  The wisdom figures among the 
Wizards (e.g. Dumbledore) represent a vastly expanded consciousness - and, in 
Dumbledore's case, the capacity to use it for good because they have met their "shadow" 
side and are not ruled by it any longer.

Marie


  
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., bg87 at m... wrote:
> Obviously, the wizarding community goes to a lot of trouble to make 
> sure that human beings have little knowledge of the wizarding world, 
> with the use of memory charms.  However, there are some Muggles with 
> extensive knowledge of the Wizarding world, such as the Dursleys and 
> Hermione's parents.  So I have 2 questions: 
> 
> 1) How can it be ensured that the Muggles who have knowledge never 
> pass it on to others?
> 
> 2) Why don't the two communities interact and help each other?  It 
> seems to me that the wizards could have been very useful in, for 
> example, fighting WW 2.  Conversely, don't Muggles have the right to 
> know that an insane wizard like Voldemort is on the loose, and 
> couldn't they be enlisted in fighting him?  I assume that evil is not 
> immune to Muggle weapons.