[HPforGrownups] Muggle matches (Was Re: Muggle-born adults)

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 75009


On Sunday, Aug 3, 2003, at 08:38 Europe/London, Geoff Bannister wrote:

>
> Me:
> I think it is only because, as others have pointed out, that we
> haven't met more...
>
> "It's a disgusting thing to call someone", said Ron, wiping his
> sweaty brow with a shaking hand, "Dirty blood, see. Common blood.
> It's mad. Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn't
> married Muggles, we'd've died out."
>
> (CoS chapter "Mudbloods and Murmurs")
>

It has just occurred to me to start wondering about this... How do so 
many wizards actually *meet* Muggles and socialise enough with them to 
get married?

We see so many examples of wizards being entirely at sea in the Muggle 
world - all those absurd costumes at the World Cup, for instance, so 
the picture we are given of the wizarding world is that it is very much 
separate from the Muggles.   Even someone as fascinated by all things 
Muggle as Arthur Weasley seems actually to regard non-magical people as 
something quite alien, and he has very little idea how to go on in 
Muggle-ish circumstances.   Yet at the same time we are told that 
people like Seamus' and Tonks' parents are one-of-each.   So who are 
these witches and wizards who mingle with Muggles?

Any theories?

Pen