WW as Parasite (was:Snape's iPod )

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No: HPFGUIDX 142590

Could one not argue that art, music, fiction, poetry, drama, and the like are about as close as we Muggles can get to magic, and that a culture that had the real thing wouldn't have as much use for substitutes?

One might argue that JKR is not giving a travelogue, but telling a story, and is not showing us more of Wizardling culture than is necessary to advance the story. Absence of presence is not the same thing as the presence of absense, as Katherine Kurtz said of the (non)appearance of Jews in her Deryni stories (which did explicitly contain both Christianity and Islam, and you can't have either of them without Jews around somewhere.)


Lawrence81