Wizard supremacy(was:Re: Nel Question #4: Class and Elitism)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 125770


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy" <elsyee_h at y...> wrote:

> Tammy:
 Muggles through the ages have proven that they just can't
> handle their beliefs being challenged and changed. Would muggles
> eventually come to understand it? 

GEO: Your analogy is evidently false. The example you cited was 
during a time when the church dominated. However I think in modern 
times we would be much more tolerant towards them. Yes there would 
be crackpots and fundamentalists that would hate the wizards, but 
then there would be others that would embrace them with equal 
fervence.

Sure, if given enough time. But in
> the meantime how many witches and wizards would have to die?

GEO: And do you really think the wizards will be able to sustain 
their isolated world as human technology rapidly increases? If they 
don't reveal themselves on their own terms, they might just be found 
out accidentally and then the persecutions would be much worse.
 
> And it's necessary for wizards and witches as well. As Hagrid says,
> muggles would constantly want a magical solution to their problems.

GEO: Thats Hagrid's reasoning and frankly I disagree with it. People 
aren't like idiotic sheeped as the wizards from the pureblood 
fanatics and the muggle lovers actually believe. We would be no more 
dependent on them as we would be on scientists.

> And I'm not talking about just the big ones like medical problems 
or
> electricity. I think the wizarding would could easily, and happily,
> provide some of those bigger things to the muggles if not for the
> Secrecy Statute. It's the smaller things, like cleaning and 
cooking. 

GEO: Which most people still do for themselves and doesn't seem to 
be any easier with magic than it is with ordinary means.

> Muggles could conceivably end up enslaving wizards. And before you 
say
> that would never happen - how did house elves end up as slaves? 

GEO: Except slavery has been condemned by the majority of humanity 
and has been made illegal in almost every corner of the world though 
some in worst places still practice. However I do agree that we 
would exploit and try to dominate the wizards and that they would do 
the same.