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

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 75128


>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
>
Indeed, Pen:

This is a *staggeringly* excellent question and, *sweeps off hat and bows 
low* my hat is off to you because I'd never even thought of this question, 
and it's one I'd think of with my sociological and social history interests.

I can only guess that the Weasleys are somewhat anomalous - perhaps 'The 
Burrow' has been in the family for centuries, and they are anomalous in 
living quite so much on their own - I'm guessing that quite a few wizards 
actually integrate into suburbs and the big and much more anonymous city of 
London and have occasion to encounter muggles in shops and such.  I imagine 
that there is a segment of the WW that doesn't mingle exclusively with their 
own kind and shop only at Diagon Alley - DA seemed to have mostly magical 
things that were only obtainable there, but perhaps your rank and file 
wizarding family goes to the local grocery for food.  Remember, Hogsmeade is 
the only all wizard town in Britain - most of the wizarding community lives 
elsewhere.

Felinia

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