wizards and sickness (slightly fanficcy in places)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 55903

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> wrote:
>  "Janet Anderson" <dorigen at h...> wrote:
> > Whether you believe in nature or nurture, there is no way Hermione 
> is  the  child of two stupid parents.
> > 
> > Once she fixes her parents' legs, she swears them to secrecy, 
> explains why,  and when Grandma calls on the phone all she gets is 
> lots of sympathy. Unless  Hermione and her mother can figure a way to 
> do the spell while Grandma is  taking a nap some afternoon. 
> 
> 
> Me:  
>   Now if Hermione is really that smart, she'll fix her dad's leg, 
> then Memory-charm him into forgetting he fell off the ladder at all.
> 
> Erin


bboy_mn:

Let's keep in mind that he mandate the muggle born witches and wizards
are working against is intended to keep the wizard world a secret.
Hermione's parents know about the wizard world; they've been there! So
there is no need to keep magic a secret from them. They know Hermione
is a witch and if it wasn't for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage
Wizardry, she would probably be doing magic all the time. And one
would logically assume if Hermoine's parent know she is a witch, they
know that they are forbidden to reveal magic and the magic world to
other muggles.

So if Mr. Granger fell and hurt himself, Hermione's hesitance to help
would be related to restrictions against underage wizardry, and if she
could justify the use of magic under the circumstancs, I'm sure she
would help. However, she would have to be EXTREMELY careful about
helping anyone who didn't already know about the wizard world.

Do wizards intervene in the muggle world? Of course they do, we see
magical/miracle cures all the time in the real world. People dying of
cancer who should be dead in a month who are instead cured in a week.
Who's to say, that they weren't anonymously cured by a near by wizard
or witch.

As long as the miracle magic they perform is done in a way the doesn't
reveal the existance of the wizard world, I think they do help. But, I
also think that for the most part they try to stay our of muggle world
affairs. If they constantly override the consequences of muggle
choices then muggles will never have to live with the consequences of
their choices and will never learn from them. If you jump out of an
airplane without a parachute and live due to the intervention of a
wizard, you are likely to think you can do it again. Part of life in
the wizard and muggle world is that, like it or not, you are stuck
living with the choices you make. 

Seemingly off on an unrelated subject, how many people are fans of the
TV show "Third Rock from the Sun". What is it that the alien Solomons
are most worried about? They are worried that if the earth people find
out who they are, the government will come for them, take them away,
and dissect them for science experiments. 

I think the discover of the wizard world would follow roughtly the
same line. Scientists would want to dissect and study them to find out
what made them 'tick'. The religious world would balk at this seeming
challenge to their authority and rule of the masses, and would
demonize them and try to convince the masses that they were the devil
himself come to destroy the world, others would worship them as gods,
others would clamor for the wizards to solve every problem while the
muggles themselves accepted no responsibility for creating thosse
problems, and others who are so insecure that they couldn't bear the
thought that they themselves might be the lowest creatures on earth,
would blame them for every ill of mankind would kill them.

No, if I was a wizard and I hoped to live along and healthy life, I
think it would be best if the muggle world knew as little as possible
about my magical existance.

just a thought.

bboy_mn