mixed marriages

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No: HPFGUIDX 124585



Sandy wrote:
> 
> Moving on to the more speculative

> How do you suppose these witches/wizards met their muggle mates? It 
> seems to me that a wizard would have to make a concerted effort to 
> seek out a muggle to date and marry, because normally, their paths 
> just don't cross. 

This being my first post here, forgive me if I do something wrong. :) 
Anyway, here goes.

This has always been a topic of interest to me, and I think I may 
have a few answers. 

Firstly, I've always been under the impression that most 
wizards/witches that marry Muggles were themselves Muggle-born, or at 
the very least, had one parent who was a Muggle. For obvious reasons, 
I think pure-bloods would find it rather difficult to find a Muggle 
mate (and most don't seem to have the desire for such a union 
anyway). I don't think there are too many instances of pure-bloods 
marrying Muggles in the books. 

Muggle borns can talk, act and dress like Muggles with ease and would 
probably have no trouble finding a partner. I'm sure that these 
Muggleborns, whenever they went home for the summer from school, did 
a lot of 'Muggly' things with their Muggle family like go to church, 
play Muggle sports (like Dean plays soccer) etc. I'm sure they also 
have Muggle friends that they might occasionally "hang-out" with from 
time to time, who might, but not necessarily, know that they're 
different. Maybe they just accept the wierd stuff that happens around 
them, or maybe the wizard/witch is able to effectively control the 
freak magic so it's not visible to a Muggle (and this might be easy, 
since the books often say that Muggles don't see very much). It's not 
difficult to see such a friendship turning into something more as 
they get older.

Sreep