[HPforGrownups] Re: The books a Hogwarts Cover-up???

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 33753

  Greetings!

> Star wrote to us:

d> I'm sure that several have had that exact same wishful thought, I
d> know I have.  It really would be wonderful that there really is magic
d> out there and a Hogwarts, a whole different world alongside yet set 
d> apart from our 'muggle' one.  Though if it were real I'm sure the 
d> wizards wouldn't be nearly so ignorant of us muggles and many of the 
d> other aspects in the book would be different but then these are 
d> childrens' books and have to be written accordingly.  The one problem 
d> I would have with the books being a cover-up is that I'd like to know 
d> if there was a whole magically world out there and I'd like to think 
d> that muggles and wizards could work toghether instead of being so 
d> seperate.

d> ~Star~

  Despite the attractiveness of the theory, I must disagree.
If it really was a cover-up, it would be much better worked
through. There would be no such glaring errors like the ones
Rowling books have. And, what's even more important, there
would be the "big picture" in the background.

  Take LOTR as an example. You read the book, but most of
the information isn't told in it. It's in the background,
and characters operate with this information easily and
without familiarising reader with it. You read the book, but
you also get an impression of the real world that stands
behind it.

  The same applies to almost any literature except fiction.
In most fantasy/fiction books there's no big world lurking
in the background - you read the story and that's just that,
nothing more.

  Rowling almost managed to create an impression of
Wizarding World. Still there are just too many
inconsistencies, errors, omissions and contradictions to
truly believe into it. The world "doesn't live" - it exists
only in writer's imagination, but a reader trying to imagine
the world runs into a deadlock almost immediately.

  If we were dealing with a society that had some experience
in spying, I would expect to find a second layer of logic
here (that is, the books were created with that many errors
intentionally to provoke this very arguments). But this
doesn't seem to be the case.

  Thus sorry guys, but I don't think there are wizards like
the ones Rowling described.

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
Ministry of Magic Operation "Cover-Up" Chief.