Muggling wizards and wizarding muggles

[deborahhbbrd]

No: HPFGUIDX 127837



The many posters (in various threads) considering the possibility of
transferring training between the WW and MW are overlooking a crucial
and canonical issue – marriage. Seamus's mother must have what looks
like a muggle life if his dad only discovers that she's a witch when
she tells him she is, after their marriage. Same with the backstory of
Dean Thomas's wizard dad – his mother presumably doesn't know to this
day that Dean is half-wizard. (And no, I don't think he's the HBP. I
don't think the HBP is necessarily a person at all. It would give me
great pleasure if it was a pub, preferably with Aberforth D polishing
the glasses!)

To digress slightly: Dean's father always makes me think of the West
Indian Old One in the Susan Cooper series – The Dark Is Rising. (A
great but flawed idea IMO. Would be interesting to know if JKR has
read them.) And like the Old Ones, there Mr Thomas was, an undercover
agent like someone in Deighton or Le Carre, living the life of any
West Ham fan. Almost! Makes you wonder how many others there might be
out there ...

Then there's Molly W's (or is it Arthur's?) second cousin, the
accountant – the one they don't talk about or see! There's one in
every family, of course, though usually not because of being an
accountant. Is he a squib? Did he cross over, perhaps for love of a
muggle? Or are there other possibilities – perhaps he just enjoys his
career or can't stand his relations?

As for Hermione meeting her old friends in the holidays – however hard
I try, I can't imagine her not being able to bore the life out of them
with a few well chosen raves about Chemistry, Maths and History
classes (which she could base rather loosely on Potions, Arithmancy
and Wizarding History). In school holidays, kids don't talk about
school. They put school firmly out of their hearts and minds until the
very last moment. And those there (putative) doting grandparents and
nosey neighbours would of course ask about school, but could also be
easily sidetracked. We've all done it and had it done to us; as a
school friend of mine once remarked, mothers are the necessity of
invention!

Deborah, not necessarily inventing.