Wizards must stay secret: Was:: WWII and Wizards

[Jim Ferer <jferer@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51355

Many thanks to Pip for the fascinating post.

I've always believed that the wizard world would have - and still
would - face serious resentment if it was revealed to the Muggle world
at large. Why didn't the wizards win the war without so many deaths?
Why doesn't Madame Pomfrey fix the National Health system? Why didn't
the wizards prevent the attacks in New York? Why don't the wizards
___ _____ __________?

It would be short step from that to the belief that the wizards
manipulate the whole world behind the scenes to suit themselves, and
from *there* to believing the wizards control banking, business, and
government behind the scenes. Is all this starting to sound familiar? I
believe that progression would be inevitable.

So the wizard world has to stay secret and separate, sad to say. But
if they need some Muggle money, I have a great idea. They could write
books and make movies...

Jim Ferer, who'd buy a round in the Leaky Cauldron