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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 125882


Dumbledad wrote:

> Wizards and Muggles are both humans, and history teaches us that 
> when one group of humans have a large, tangible, and lasting 
> superiority over other humans they exploit it to subjugate them. 
> And yet muggle society is not totally beholden to the wizarding 
> world. <snip> Why aren't Vernon and all other muggles enslaved 
> and carrying out whatever menial tasks wizards do not want to do
> for themselves? 

a_svirn:

Maybe they were? Who knows how world history until 1692 lookes like 
from the wizarding point of view? And then there is this fishy 
business with Grindelwald's defeat in 1945. 

> Dumbledad:
> 
> PS Quick aside: a_svirn wrote:
> >>> After all most of us can't help but identify with Muggles  
> a fact that makes muggle/wizard relationship far more interesting <<<
>
> This is true of many or most adult readers but is it true of kids? 
> I think not, and after all, these are kids' books.

a_svirn:

Good point. 
a_svirn