[HPforGrownups] Re: Why the Malfoys Are This Way and Sociology

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 33535

  Greetings, !

> Lilahp wrote to us in her wisdom:

s> I am sure that all of you are right, if we are thinking about normal
s> population assimilation. 

s> I didn't mean that they should come out into the open - I don't think 
s> many of us muggles, if we knew of their existence, would treat them 
s> much better than we would have centuries ago!

  That I agree. Remember from Derini - "people destroy
things they cannot comprehend".
  I would suppose there can be only two variants of open
contact between Wizarding World and Muggle World - either
there's a big war, or wizards agree to be "slave-race" to be
used in laboratory experiments (top-secret laboratory
experiments, of course) to determine what magic is...

s> Permit me to explain. What I did mean was that the wizarding world 
s> could have taken over Entirely By Secret. Since they seem to be able 
s> to keep things from being discovered so well. 

  Oh, no, shut her mouth or she gives them an Idea! :-P

  What I cannot agree in your detailed plan is the general
idea that a secret operation of such scale can be kept
secret.
  First of all, wizards will have to agree with the fact
that the information WILL leak. There is no way to prevent
it, no matter do you have Memory Charms or not. But unlike
current situation, information leakage is much more likely
to become the subject of investigation of security agencies
(it's much more difficult to conceal a secret operation in
High Circles).
  As soon as this happens, discovery of the Wizarding World
is the question of time. Of course, from the point of view
of securities, wizards have advanced techology (memory
erasing, false memory creation etc), but they have no school
of conspiracy, are weakly trained to operate in the muggle
world and are in general incompetent. And anyway I doubt the
effectiveness of Memory Charms against modern interrogation
technics (if you think our securities are too ethical to use
it, I wish you luck).
  The result of all this will be simple and predictable:
some kind of _undirect_ contact between country governments
and Wizarding World. Unofficial contact.

  But don't they have such contact already?

  Minister of Magic may _believe_ that Muggle Prime-Minister
keeps his mouth tightly shut about Wizards. So good for him,
he's such a nice guy. I don't believe into such charity.
Even more, I have a strong suspicion that special Anti-Magic
Wings of security organisations have been created long ago
in all countries that posess any kind of security... And
they have been created with that very purpose - to _prevent_
such operation of the Wizarding World.

  Of course, all this has gone pretty off-topic, so I better
shut up before Securities come to take me... :)

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
always happy to throw weird ideas into the community.