[HPforGrownups] Muggleborns choosing WW

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 118075

Pippin wrote:
>It seems to me jobs are like marriages, the people who are
>happy in them can find just as many things to complain about
>as the ones who aren't. We can't be sure Stan and Ernie aren't
>happy and contented because they've been taught not to aspire
>to anything better, just like the House Elves.

It's true that the only time we see Ernie "off-duty", he's not talking about
the joys of being a bus conductor but then, you can't but make allowances
for the circumstances!

If our own world is anything to go by, even though many people are taught
not to aspire to anything better, it doesn't stop them from being
discontented with their lot...

But really, the point is that Muggles, like us, have to put a lot of hard
work in in order to get things done. There are a lot of hard, dirty manual
processes involved in almost everything from cooking and cleaning up to
mining and metal bashing. The WW doesn't have those processes because magic
is so much more efficient than technology: its processes are clean, quick,
and seemingly healthy. There just isn't any evidence that the kind of
pointless demeaning jobs that abound in our world even exist there. And if
you strip out the unpleasant part of work, then it's understandable that job
satisfaction would be higher.

>I do wonder about the person who has the potential to be a
>skillful surgeon or a brilliant software engineer, but has only a
>mediocre magical talent. Are they really better off in the WW? It's
>fun to wish we were witches and wizards, but the law of
>averages predicts that half of us will be less talented than the
>other half.

If someone has the potential but it's unrealised, then it may well be that
they know no better. If they _already_ have begun to develop their
potential, then I suspect that they would be able to contribute to WW
society just as to Muggle society: a potential computer whiz would have the
kind of mindset that could take research into spell development in
directions which would seem obvious to our eyes but would be inconceivable
to the notorious illogic of the WW

Cheers

Ffred

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