A thought about wizard-muggle relations

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 126219


Maria:

> So, regardless of the 
> relations between the Dursleys and the Potters... how do families
> like theirs (one muggle 
> and one magical) get along? How do they comply with the Statute of
> Secrecy? With the 
> adults is one thing, but how to make a child like Dudley keep quiet
> at school about his 
> cousin Harry, who makes magic and plays with toy-broomsticks? Are
> muggle-born 
> witches and wizards doomed to be apart from their muggle families to
> maintain the 
> secrecy of the wizarding world? 

Finwitch:

Oh, well - who would *believe* the child? They'd just think it was 
child's play - and the 'toy broomstick' was just a version of stick-
Horse...

Most children DO believe in magic - Christmas Magic, anyway (flying 
reindeers, elves, ability to visit every house in the World in one 
night) ... then they go to school and stop believing, because it 
doesn't fit into physics.

Dudley would have stopped talking about magic soon because of auntie 
Marge saying that anyone 'flying with a broomstick' just didn't have 
enough to buy a proper stick-horse with contempt or because the other 
children would laugh at him for believing such tales...
 
Finwitch