Muggles and Wizards (was Re: House Size)

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 26142

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> 
> I've always been interested in what would happen if our world found 
> out that the wizard world was real, and I see problems. What you 
said touches on the problem. I fear that if we did find out wizards 
were real, there would be rapidly growning jealousy and resentment 
for everything in the world the wizards could have "fixed" but 
didn't. 
> 
> The next step would be that people would think wizards were running 
> the world behind the scenes to suit themselves. An awful lot of 
people look for the invisible puppeteers messing up their lives, 
whether they're members of the Tripartite Commission or the UN, or 
flying black helicopters. Eventually violence against wizards would 
begin.
> 
> The wizards made the right decision to stay secret.


I totally agree with you, Jim.  Octavia Butler posited in her 
Xenogenesis theory that human beings were hierarchical... and we 
*are*.  We tend to Sort ourselves according to our differences even 
when we self-righteously say that we do not.

We must remember that according to JKR's implied backstory (derived 
from canon and the schoolbooks), the Muggle world's persecution is 
what drove the wizarding world into hiding in the first place.

--Ebony AKA AngieJ