Wizarding dump? [was Re: Petunia's knowledge?]

[Thren]

No: HPFGUIDX 83731

tiggersong wrote:

>I don't know how the recycling thing happens where you are, but here 
>it works this way. 
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Yes, I know how recycling works, but thanks for the refresher. My 
statement stands- if the WW is so concerned about keeping itself secret 
from the Muggle world, they can't just allow the Daily Prophet to go 
through normal recycling methods. First, there's the danger that someone 
will see it. It could fall out of the bundle, someone could see it at 
any points along its jouirney to being shredded. It's *physical proof* 
that the WW exists. It's not just someone who sees a flying car, or a 
dragon, or people doing magic. It's something they can hold in their 
hands and show to people. VERY dangerous. All it would take is a trip 
down to the (Muggle) newspaper, and boom! international news. Can't be 
easy to Memory Charm most of the Western World, can it? And I don't know 
how garbage disposal goes over in Britain, so for this argument let's 
say we're talking about an American/Canadian Wizarding paper- I *know* 
we have people who go through dumps. It's highly likely that a newspaper 
would somehow, some way make its way to a dump sometime- not everyone 
recycles, or sometimes people slip up. All it takes is one, and 
everybody goes down. Same goes for parts of the world like Southeast 
Asia, where there are whole *communities* of people living in the dump 
and scavenging. They can't just toss them out. Even illiterates can't 
ignore moving pictures of goblins or whathaveyou.

See where I'm going with this? There are so many different ways that 
Muggles could see the Prophet or other Wizarding papers if it were to go 
through the Muggle garbage system. It'd be far too much risk to let 
people just toss them into the system.

So how do they get rid of their garbage in general? Use that vanishing 
thing Snape does on Harry's cauldron? Where does all that stuff *go*, 
anyway? Magic seems to follow basic laws of nature- you can't just 
*disappear*, for instance, you Disapparate from one place and Apparate 
instantly in another. You don't just *not exist in bodily form*. Does 
the WW have a dump somewhere that they just poof things to? And wouldn't 
*that* be a fun place. :P

Y'know, it strikes me how pathetic it is that I just sat here typing 
this all up... *sigh* I need a life.

Thren