Hogwarts prep school/Clothing/language/Muggle Interface

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 38584

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bystardust" <doldra at h...> wrote:
> It's true--the WW does seem to have held on better than muggles to 
> old-fashioned ways of life (for example, quills and parchment), but 
> that's what I find confusing: in some ways, the WW seems very 
> separated from ours, but in other ways the line between the two 
> worlds is blurred.
 
Yes, it does indeed.  But I'm thinking the WW and the Muggle world 
branched from each other a long time ago. The story about the 
founding of Hogswarts makes me believe strongly in this.  I don't 
know the exact qoute(I'm almost sure it's somewheres in Cos), but it 
mentions that when the school was founded there was alot of bad 
prejudice about wizards or something of the kind.  I just immediately 
think of the Dark Ages(that'd be back some hundred years in England, 
around the time they still had parchment/quills and governesses, I'd 
say...).  And I agree with draco382, in that it seems as though this 
merging of Muggle and WW seems to be rather new.


Doldra:
> I also agree with draco382's points and think the theory is 
probably 
> true, but I still can't figure out why some wizard-muggle rules and 
> boundaries are so loose and casual while others are rigid and 
strict. 
> I guess it's because, like you said, it's only recently become more 
> common for wizards and muggles to do things together, and that some 
> people have trouble getting used to it. It seems like a lot of the 
> older magical folk are bothered by the idea and that it's a 
> widespread opinion that muggles are petty and uninteresting. Makes 
me 
> think of the elves in _Lord_of_the_Rings_, but I won't get into 
that.

I have to go with the new-ness of this merging as an answer for the 
slackness of some rules and the strictness of others.  I think the 
Wizards main worry is being found out by the Muggles, so I imagine 
such rules would be rather strictly enforced. But perhaps it's just 
because each department is run in it's own way, and each Head of the 
department runs things very differently- take Ludo Bagman and Barty 
Crouch, for example.  Yes, it does seem to resemble the way Elves and 
Men acted towards each other a long long time ago(this is in LotR 
reckoning).