[HPforGrownups] Squibs & Muggles

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 57543

Darrin wrote:
> The Muggle Prime Minister is aware of the Wizard World, as are the parents
> and other relatives of any Muggle-born.  We know through the Grangers that
> Muggles can enter Diagon Alley.

It's not explicitly stated that the PM is aware of the WW, just that he was
"notified" of Sirius's escape. That would be quite feasible without his
being aware of the WW at all. I formed a picture of his having a report put
on his desk, apparently from the Home Office (but really from a MoM "plant"
in the Cabinet Office), giving details of a dangerous criminal who had
escaped, and telling him what to do about it.

> The Weasley cousin gets a Muggle job and apparently doesn't associate with
> his magic kin.  I mean, this is the Weasleys., some of the nicest people
in the
> Wizard World, and there is not a place for this cousin?

Maybe there are no accountants in the WW! (Suddenly goes up hugely in my
estimation...)

> Perhaps Filch has a job in the magic world through the open-mindedness of
> Dumbledore, employer of werewolves and giants, payer of house elves,
> granter of second-chances to Death Eaters, and generally all-around great
> guy.

Though Filch is also an example of the difference between squibs and
muggles - he obviously has to get his janitorial supplies from somewhere,
and there's no suggestion that if he pops down to the shop in Hogsmeade,
that he has to wander the glens and bens, unable to find Hogwarts again
because of the anti-muggle spells, until someone has mercy on him.

> -- Here's another one though. Could the Grangers, now that they are in the
> know, see the Knight Bus?

I think that everyone can _see_ the Knight Bus, they just don't _notice_ it.
Douglas Adams came up with the idea of a "someone else's problem" generator
to hide things and I think the Knight Bus has a magical equivalent. (Thinks:
"There's a big bus going down the road and the streetlamps are jumping out
of the way, it's someone else's problem so I don't notice it")

Cheers

Ffred

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