[HPforGrownups] Straying onto your manor/Dumbledore

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 52600

Nicole wrote:

>Point taken.  :)  It's just my assumption that it is
>based on the fact that it's called a "manor" and given
>the knowledge that there are servants.  The expensive
>brooms Lucius buys for the Quidditch team also helps
>me lean towards the idea of the manor being huge.

If it was huge, it wouldn't have been called a manor! Among the 19th century
English aristocracy, it was the smaller landowners (the squires) who would
have lived in manors. A house would have been much bigger than a manor. And
if you were right at the top, you would have had a palace...

Which would lead me to see the Malfoys as being squirearchy rather than
magnate class (if indeed the WW has a magnate class - how would they hide
all that land, after all?)

Meanwhile Catlady wrote:

>Dumbledore is a counterexample. He has ambitions for change: he wants
>the wizard folk to be less bigotted and to learn from the Muggle
>worlds, and his method is to educate the young.

Though he was not ambitious enough to take the top job when it was offered,
and instead has maintained his own political network, which at the end of
"Goblet" he begins to reactivate. But that in itself immediately raises the
likelihood of a conflict between the "Albians" and the MoM - it's unlikely
that Fudge, who is determined not to bring things into the public eye, is
going to take kindly to a group of wizards publicly proclaiming that
Voldemort is back and that it's time to tool up the defences. It suggests to
me that the good guys have to organise conspiratorially as well.

Cheers

Ffred

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