Ron and Luna living close by (was Re: Hermione's Patonus)

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 119545



> Steve wrote: 
> Who is now wondering why Ron didn't know who Luna was before when 
> she lives so close by.

But spatial promixity doesn't matter so much when you can apparate, 
travel by floo powder or portkeys. Living close to someone doesn't 
automatically mean you share a communal bond- not if there are ways 
of travelling great distances away from that local community in tiny 
amounts of time. It's like the internet- why talk with the people 
who live close by when you are only seconds away from people who are 
on the other side of the world? People who you actually share more 
in common with? The Weasleys are most definitely aware the Lovegoods 
exist, they would take the same portkey any time there was a big 
wizarding event (like meeting at the bus stop, but never going to 
the same destination), but when you can take that zippy portkey, 
presumably, halfway across the globe in only a matter of seconds, 
your local community becomes less important.

What our muggle world is beginning to experience these days (the 
global village, being able to make a community that is not based on 
geography but on common interests) the Wizarding World must have 
experienced for centuries. 

~<(Laurasia)>~