Is there anything in the HP world that bothers you?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 56480

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mongo62aa" 
<william.truderung at s...> wrote:

> But the thing that really bothered me was the entire 'justice 
> system', for lack of a better word.

Well, Bill walked off with my first big bother about the HP world.  

The other thing that bothers me is that I can't believe that the 
wizard world can remain so hidden from the non-wizard world.  The UK 
has its share of screaming tabloids - do you mean to tell me that no 
one ever spilled the beans about all this magic stuff to any of these 
publishers? 

And that parents like the Grangers think nothing of sending their 
child off to a school of magic?  What do they tell their Muggle 
friends? Do they lie about Hogwarts and vaguely pass it off as some 
boarding school?  Do they have to continually monitor their 
conversation so that they don't let anything slip?  Is the MoM 
constantly running around making people like the Grangers shut up?  
And, if they (the Grangers) do let something slip, is there a 
contingent of MoM workers tirelessly tossing memory charms at Muggles 
to make them forget what the Grangers may have said?  How would the 
MoM even know that something had been revealed in casual 
conversation? 

And what about those Muggles married to magical folk?  It doesn't 
seem that uncommon.  Somehow, down through the years, it strikes me 
that an awful lot of Muggles have indeed come in contact with the 
wizard world. And all of them kept mum?  That doesn't seem possible.

And, of course, the flip side of this is how some wizarding folk seem 
so clueless about the Muggle world.  If remaining hidden is so 
important, it would seem that a great deal of study should focus on 
how to live and work among Muggles without attracting attention, 
especially since there don't seem to be whole communities that are 
exclusively wizarding. 

So, this wizard/muggle split universe is something that gives me a 
lot of trouble.

Marianne, who's never found Snape sexy. Powerful, yes. Sexy, no. Give 
me a smart, good-looking man who understands and appreciates animals 
and machinery.