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

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 75435


On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 01:34 Europe/London, Jesta Hijinx wrote:

>
> 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.

<blush>  How kind!  I can't quite think why it hadn't occurred to me 
before, either...
>
> 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.
>

I suppose the fairest thing to say is that wizards who don't want to 
have contact with the muggle world don't need to - they can Floo 
everywhere, shop in their own shops, read their own papers etc, but 
that wizards who, as you suggest, live in or near the big cities and 
towns probably learn to get along muggle-fashion.   I suppose Harry 
probably doesn't notice the ones who are behaving in a 'normal' way.

Hmm.

"bibphile" <bibphile at yahoo.com> wrote:

 >Many of the wiches and wizards that marry muggles are probably
muggle-born.  They still associate with their families.  A muggle-
born which might occassinonaly go out to a muggle club or party with
with her sister and meet some one there.  Or one of her parents
neighbors may drop by to borrow something while she's there and
start flirting with her.  The same rules might apply with actual
(literal) half-bloods.<

Good point.   Hermione seems to have dropped all contact with the 
muggle world, but she isn't necessarily typical.  At any rate, it seems 
the dichotomy isn't quite as bad as I'd thought it was.  Thanks, folks!

Pen



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