Flaws with the Wizarding World and Muggles (was Dumbledore's serious errors

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 122929


Lupinlore wrote:

I think that it comes from several factors, perhaps most specifically
an overwhelming and totally unacknowledged fear. Wizards must be
constantly aware of being a tiny minority living in a sea that would
rise as a hurricane if their existance were ever publicly revealed. 
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I think they have an enormous
psychological pressure to cling to whatever they have that is unique,
and to rely on it for everything.
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If
there were ever an open rift could the Wizards really count on 100%
loyalty, or would large numbers of Half-Bloods and Muggleborns be
willing to lend their services to the other side of their ancestry? 


Laurasia:

Can the Wizarding World ever be healed of this deep flaw without
absolving its separation from the Muggle World?

So long as there is a separation, some wizards will fear the Muggle
World, some wizards will resent the Muggle World, some wizards will
think themselves superior. Voldemort is just acting how the Wizarding
World is telling him to behave. He's is just taking the Wizard-Muggle
opposition to an absolute and utter separation: Death of all Muggles
and those who align themselves with them.

The only way this  'quest for purification' will disappear from the
Wizard psychology is if the Muggle and Wizarding Worlds see each other
as equals.. We see a generation of young wizards who are more at home
in the Muggle World than their parents. We see a dwindling minority of
Pure Bloods. For an equilibrium to develop naturally it will takes
many decades before every generation has changed.

Alternatively, if Muggles and Wizards have to stand up to a common
foe, they would be *forced* to see each other as equals to get the job
done.

When Voldemort starts an all out war in HBP, the Muggles will *have*
to be notified. The Muggles will *have* to do what they can to help,
i.e. destroy Voldemort, because they are his real prey.

Will the new Minister for Magic call for aid from the Muggles? Will we
see Wizards and Muggles fighting side-by-side? Treating each other as
equal in the face of imminent death?

The Ministry's main aim is to maintain secrecy from Muggles. This
endeavour will have to be abandoned in favour of military preparations
once open war is upon them. Not only will Voldemort's devastating
actions draw attention from the Muggles, but the MoM won't have enough
resources to attend to more day-to-day accidents which affect the
Muggle World.

The Muggles will become aware. And because Voldemort is really after
*their* extinction, if we don't see someone in Wizard authority *tell*
*the* *Muggles* that they will be hunted and killed, then the Wizards
apparently *don't* want to help wipe out this flaw in their society
which goes back over a thousand years. This would prove that they
still want separation which only breeds prejudice and
misunderstanding. Separation only highlights the differences between
the two parties, instead of admitting that they are all humans. 

At the end of GoF Dumbledore instructs that aid should be drawn from
the Giants and Dementors... What of the Muggles?

~<(Laurasia)>~