Truly International Secrets?(was Re: African Prince)

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Dharma wrote:
 
Obviously I did not clarify my question significantly.  My question 
goes to how global the "International Statute" really is.  An 
agreement between 10 countries would be international, but not 
inclusive of all Wizarding communities.  
 
There are places in the world where magic is part of the 
cultural/social/political leadership.  Are these cultures/states 
included?  Is there any evidence that all Wizarding communities 
adhere to the Statute of Secrecy?  Is there evidence that there are 
communities wherein Wizards and Muggles live together?
 
Carol responds:
I don't know how extensive the International Statute of Secrecy is,
but the answer to your last question is yes. If Hogsmeade is theonly
all-wizarding village in Britain, there must be many such communities.
Even Godric's Hollow, which I take to be the name of a village and not
the house itself (even though English country houses sometimes have
names, or used to, a house would not be called a "hollow"), is at
least partly a Muggle community. And 12 Grimmauld Place, IIRC, is in a
*London* neighborhood wedged between two Muggle houses. And have you
noticed the ads in JKR's Rumours section for an alarm to warn against
interruptions by Muggle neighbors? I don't think the ad is wholly
tongue in cheek.

Dharma replies:

I see your point and have come to realize, yet again, that the way 
I'm asking this question is just not clear
I'm wondering if there are 
Wizard/Muggle societies that are open and integrated.  It struck me 
when reading GoF that the Wizards who were trying to pay Mr. Roberts 
in large gold coins, might have come from societies wherein exchange 
between Wizards and Muggles was a more open salient process.  It is 
easy to assume that they might not have been familiar with Muggle 
culture, but it seems to me that they could have just understood 
Muggle culture in a different way.  As there are places where magic 
is part of the culture and belief systems, is it necessarily the case 
that *all* Wizards would be operating under the same assumptions that 
secrecy is a necessity?


I'm under the impression that there might not be enough information 
about other Wizarding cultures in the books to answer this question, 
but thanks for the input.