Why the Malfoys Are This Way, Female Characters, and Sociology

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 33487

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "southernscotland" <southernscotland at y...> 
wrote:
> I have a little theory (please be gentle and use candles instead of 
> flames!) about why the Malfoys might not like muggles. They are 
> afraid of them (us).

I think that's pretty much correct.

> Another point I've wondered: why haven't the wizards in the 
> Potterverse simply taken over the muggle world, as they easily 
could 
> have? Just because they don't like our world and are afraid of it? 
> 
> Instead of retreating, they now could easily run everything in our 
> muggle towns and cities, everywhere, with all their powers. I know 
> they have laws to prevent it, but why? Why haven't they developed 
> into the ruling peoples of the earth?
> 
> (I have often thought the same things about Elves and Middle-Earth, 
> but that's off-topic.) 

Well, read the Silmarilion for the answer. 

> 
> Anyway, maybe the Malfoys have some deep-seated fears, horrible 
> stories about muggles persecuting and/or killing their wizard 
family, 
> that they pass on from generation to generation. That would serve 
to 
> keep their hate and fear of us mudbloods alive.     
> 
> It's kind of flattering, in a perverse sort of way, to think that 
the 
> Malfoys, and others like them, might fear us more than all the 
wizard 
> world's monsters and fabulous beasts.

And, right they would be. Once, magic got out of the bag, we'd figure 
out how to cope with it, better it, and probably use it. I mean, look 
at all our posters who are searching for the magical gene. It must 
exist in this sceneario. If Muggle scientists got to work, who knows 
what they could do? Would this be a completely bad idea? No. But it 
would be pretty cataclysmic for the magical world. So, no wonder, 
they stick to their own right now.

Eileen