Wizarding dump?

[hermowninny719]

No: HPFGUIDX 83879

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, > Thren <thren at s...> wrote: > 
<snip> > 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 
journey 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. > > <BIG snip> > > 

Now me: > 
Do you really think a bunch of muggles looking at the Prophet would 
believe it's really true? Aside from the moving photos, (and I 
presume if muggles were to look at the photos, they would be still) I 
tend to think the average Joe would believe it to be a spoof paper or 
a parody written just for entertainment. Kind-of like a comic book, 
where you can follow the daily news in a make-believe world. 

For example, when I walked in to my local Barnes & Noble and saw a 
copy of Quidditch Through the Ages, it never occurred to me that this 
was an actual school book for use in an actual school for a world I'd 
never heard of. I saw it as a humorous extension to a fantasy world.  
Perhaps there are even muggles who read the Prophet regularly--as a 
diversion to *real* life--much as we watch TV or read comic books. 

Even if it was "International News" I could only see it appearing in 
a tabloid type magazine-somewhat like the Quibbler or the National 
Enquirer. Where most rational people wouldn't believe it anyway. 

Just my two cents. 

Hermowninny