[HPforGrownups] Buying in Muggle Goods Was:Re: The Unforgivable Curses on animals?

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 95252

Annemehr wrote:
> Actually, it would be quite easy for the WW to take in Muggle goods
> such as foods, fabrics, or lumber.  All you would need is for Witches
> and Wizards with a familiarity with the Muggle world to set up
> interface businesses.  These businesses would change Galleons for
> Muggle money at Gringott's, use it to buy the goods from Muggles (all
> the while looking to the Muggles like an ordinary Muggle business),
> and then resell the goods to Wizard businesses.  Muggleborns and some
> half-bloods would have the expertise, and it would be a good way to
> make use of that Muggle money that the Goblins take in.

I don't think we are going to agree on this one!

My POV starts from the Statute of Secrecy, which I read as meaning that at
all costs, the Muggle world _mustn't_ find out about the WW. So if there are
dealers acting as a point of contact between the two, I don't think the
Ministry would be too happy about a certain section of wizards being able to
do something with impunity that others aren't allowed to do without strict
regulation.

I'd agree that half blood and muggle born wizards do bring certain new
cultural influences into the WW (maybe that's why the conservative,
aristocratic factions dislike them so much) and that this is the way that
the WW are able to stay ahead of the game, but at the end of the day, it
boils down to whether you think that having such a large hole in the secrecy
laws is _necessary_ for the WW, or whether they've evolved a better means of
doing it themselves.

But JKR alone knows all

Cheers

Ffred

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