Lack of Hogsmeade Muggle Protection

[innermurk]

No: HPFGUIDX 58311

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002" 
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:
> It has recently struck me how odd it is that Hogsmeade appears to 
> have zero security against being spotted by Muggles, given the 
other 
> Muggle protection devices we see employed elsewhere (tap the bricks 
> with your wand to open the gateway to Diagon Alley; run 
through/lean 
> against the King's Cross barrier to get onto Platform 9 and 3/4; 
the 
> inability to apparate or disapparate into Hogwarts).
> 
> It seems as if there's nothing to prevent a Muggle from wandering 
> into the Three Broomsticks (where the Muggle might see not only 
> witches and wizards, but also potentially goblins and ogres), or 
> seeing the owl post office (thus revealing the wizarding postal 
> method), or browsing at Gladrags Wizardwear, or looking at the 
> wizarding equipment at Dervish and Banges.
> 
> It just seems to me with all of the concern about wizards staying 
> hidden from Muggles, Hogsmeade is a big security breach.
> 


We don't really know that it isn't secure because we've only seen HHR 
enter by two ways.
1. The secret passageway - this must be accessed via Hogwarts. I 
doubt the muggles could get there or find it if they did.
2. The road from Hogwarts - Again, muggles wouldn't be there to go 
down the road.

I'm guessing it has a lot of the anti and muggle repellants around it 
since it's a totally wizarding villiage. They're just not between 
Hogwarts and Hogsmeade.

Innermurk