[HPforGrownups] Re: Royal Family only for muggles?

[heidit at netbox.com]

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Continuing my prior reply...

It's fascinating to see how jkr has little bits of Muggle life affect the wizarding world - clearly things from before the 1600s were regularly incorporated into the wizarding world (and possibly vice versa - do a search of the yahoogroup for *indoor plumbing*) but even more modern things like the Wireless did as well(but it's possible that happened because during world war II, wizards helped in the fight against the Axis because Grindlewald was helping the Axis)

I think that jkr probably has reasons for having wizards aware of some things but not others, but I don't think we'll know what they are until the books are done.

I have seen what I personally feel is an urge by some readers of the books - including some posters here - to pass off everything that didn't make sense at the end of one book as a flint (error) or inconsistency, and while I don't deny that jkr's made her share of glitches (wand order?) I think the overarching decisions really do hang together.

I do wonder if people who read all 4 books right through are more prone to this, whereas those of us who waited for books 2, 3 and 4 to come out are more accepting of the fact that there are Things We Don't Know.

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