Wizarding Life Span vs. Muggle Life Span

[Melody <Malady579@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 47923

Acire wrote:
>>However, here's a question: wouldn't the fact that wizards live
>>longer than Muggles deter some wizards away from marrying a Muggle?
>>You know right from the start that you're going to live longer than
>>your spouse, and should you choose to tell your spouse, they know
>>they will die before you.

bboy_mn comments:
> "Love for a moment is better that nothing for a lifetime."
> When you love someone, you love them, and in accepting that love,
> you accept all the potential heartache that comes with it. In the
> same sense, living your life mean accepting the possiblity of death.


Well the quote that comes to my mind is from Tennyson's "In Memorium":

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

So from that, I am split between the two of you.  How can someone, who
loves another so deeply, enter a marriage knowing there is a high
possibility that they would outlive their spouse?  Knowing that there
is a higher possibility that they will live alone for most of their life?

Well Acire, Love's not time's fool.  True deep love does not care.
Better to have spent what lifetime they have with each other than
spend the time without.

Of course, the idea of living alone can be rather depressing.  Knowing
what once was and is no longer.  Seeing their face in the smoke from
the cauldron.  Going to visit the Mirror of Erised a bit too much.
How is it that someone would place themselves in the possibility of
being in that predicament?  Seems imprudent and foolish.

But, hey, what am I saying?  This is love after all.  It does not
alter when alteration is found.  When Mr. Wizard falls for Miss Muggle
and falls *truly* in love, then there is little else in their mind
than the fact that Mr. Wizard wants to spend whatever time he has with
Miss Muggle.  He wants to protect her, share with her, have
kids...etc. etc. all the nice lovely things.

So, why would the fact he would live longer than her bother him and
stop him?  I don't think it would if he did love her in that 'agape'
kind of love, but...reality is still there.  That is probably why
Flamel shared his potion with his wife and seemingly *only* his wife.
 Some books and stories have been written about this in the realm of
immortality.  How can someone who is immortal let themselves fall in
love knowing they definitely *will* out live their dear love?

I guess that is what Acire is asking.  Not why are they marrying
Muggles, but why are they even allowing themselves to fall in love
with them if there is that live span factor.  A good part of their
life will be lived without their chosen spouse.  Seems that could be
avoided by just avoiding Muggles and marrying in their "kind".

But alas, the marriage of true minds admits no impediments.  If Mr.
Wizard truly loves Miss Muggle, then what is to stop them from
marrying?  Not a silly thing like magic.

Have you seen a man in true love?  They are intoxicating and driven
almost.  It is that tender hand wanting only his love's that is so
*amazing*.  In that love, age does not matter.

So I think, love got in the way of prudence, and Mr. Wizard saw Miss
Muggle, and it was Romeo and Juliet...just with a happier ending.


Melody
who would like to thank Shakespeare for letting her quote his works