Christmas Gifts from Dursleys

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 77306

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ariadnemajic" <stevejjen at e...>
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
> <wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> > Maybe Hogwarts has a Post Office box somewhere in London, where 
> > Muggle mail can be sent and then picked up by a MoM employee and 
> > forwarded by owl.  There have to be some contact points between 
> > the WW and Muggle world; ...edited...
> 
> 
> I've been wondering about the Muggle/WW interaction since POA, when 
> we find out that Fudge has consulted with the Muggle Prime Minister 
> about Sirius (when he escapes from Azkaban). Yet in GOF, the WW takes 
> SO many precautions for the Quidditch WC, and places constant memory 
> charms on all the Muggles.  Can we assume the Prime Minister has 
> extensive memory work done at some point as well? ...edited...
> Ariadne

bboy_mn:

Regarding the Prime Minister, I think the situation is explained to
him when he/she first takes office much like the existance of outer
space aliens is explained to each new incoming president (or so some
people claim). It is impressed upton this new person the revealing
this information to anyone could have very grave socical, political,
religious, and very very personal consequences. 

Then once that persons term has ended, those minor inconvinient
aspects of their memory are erased, thus securing the secrecy of the
wizard world. If any particular Prime Minister violates this trust, it
become a matter for the Obilivator Squard to manage any damage control.

Now, as to the more routine interaction between the wizard world and
the muggle world, I believe there are many people who act as gateways
between the two worlds. Example; Seamus Finnigan's father is pure
muggle and his mother is a witch. It's conceivable that Mr. Finnigan
prefers to live and do business in the muggle world where he is more
comfortable, although, that by no means implies that he avoids or
shuns the magic world, he is simply more comfortably living in the
muggle world in his daily life. 

But being a good business man, and knowing a good opportunity when he
sees one, he finds himself in the perfect position to use his muggle
business as a go-between point for trading goods and services between
the two worlds. In a sense, his businesses acts as import/export
businesses; importing and exporting for the wizard world.

I also believe that Gringotts bank has several muggle 'front'
organizations that act as go-between points for the exchange of money
and business investments between the two worlds. 

There are many older posts and threads in this group where we discuss
the nature and extent of business operations in the wizard world. I
was going to post some links but Yahoo's search feature is being very
uncooperative at the moment.

just a thought.

bboy_mn