Magic Space/Muggle Space???

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50602

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "errolowl <nithya_rachel at h...>" 
<nithya_rachel at h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> And space can apparently be hidden in a variety of ways.
> 
> Mode 1, Camouflage:
> Where you see the spatial extents, but not the contents/ buildings
> Eg, Hogwarts
> 
> Much like with Hogwarts, muggles would see merely a deserted 
> building, a land fill, letter box or some other innocuous item that 
> they wouldn't give a thought to or be tempted to explore. But
> this 
> kind of misdirection would surely get complicated if a muggle 
decided 
> to say, play around on the rubbish heap. The hidden building is 
still 
> actually occupying the physical space, but not only should the 
muggle 
> not see it, but not feel it or be obstructed by it either if he 
> actually walks through the space. It's not only visual illusion,
> but 


This one's my favorite. Play around on the rubbish heap, poke around 
the "haunted house" on the end of the street. We all know a place 
like this. The house that's been empty FOREVER, the vacant lot that 
NO ONE can remember anything EVER having been built on it and for 
that matter that construction site in the middle of the city that's 
been hidden behind plywood for -- how long? Many of these places are 
left completely alone. "Someone must own it." "Someone must be 
building something." Kids won't go near them--even if they try they 
get within 100 paces then something "scares them off" and they can 
never tell you what it was. Nine times out of ten they'll run back 
and tell an older kid who'll tell them the same thing happpend to 
them years ago...and the same thing happened to their Dad when he was 
a kid.
This type of camouflage is the theory I tend to stick with. The WW 
has usurped pieces of space and hidden them in plain sight, really. 
Just like the description of what Hogwarts would look like to a 
Muggle that wandered up to it.  How many muggles walk right past the 
Leaky Cauldron thinking "One day I'll peek in there."? They never 
will, if they tried they wouldn't get within peeking distance before 
something 'spooked' or 'distracted' them.