[HPforGrownups] Re: WW as Parasite (was:Snape's iPod)

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 142660



 > PJ:

 > But they do touch! Each and every time an 11 year old Muggle child
 > gets a letter from Hogwarts, that new student's music, sports,
 > literature and (perhaps) art preferences goes right to Hogwarts
 > along with them! Like Harry, these children could've been exposed
 > to all of this at their public schools as well as from their
 > parents. Also when they go home for the summer and holidays they
 > hear any of the new music they missed while at school.

Nora:
>But their access thereto is pretty limited while they're at
>Hogwarts.  The side-effect (or perhaps side purpose) of this is to
>integrate people into their new society, both skills-wise and in
>cultural interest.  Given the "wow shiny new!" features of magic, and
>the seeming overt superiority of magical versions of things (see
>photography for a particularly apt example), it's harder than not, I
>would think, to proselytize their cultural interests to other
>students.  And we've seen that students do gradually become alienated
>from their 'home' culture; Hermione is a good example of this.
>Therefore I'm skeptical of just how much cultural interchange can
>really be promoted.

PJ:
Sorry but Hermione's a horrible example IMO.   I suspect it was far easier 
to sever ties for her (JKR can be ruthless!) than to have to mollify so many 
adults in each and every book.  Especially when 2 of those adults are 
muggles who would need endless pages of explanation so they wouldn't 
threaten to pull their daughter out of such a dangerous place as Hogwarts 
every year!  Without the trio where's the book?  :-)

While I agree that the wizarding culture is probably where most Muggleborn 
wizards will eventually make their lives I disagree that they would feel the 
need to make an either/or decision once they realized they had the best of 
*both* worlds!  If it really were routine to cut all ties to the Muggle 
World then I should think there would be many more 6th and 7th year kids 
staying on at Hogwarts during the holidays rather than going home to family. 
  As it is there are almost none at all around the tables (Trawlaney had her 
knickers in a knot over being the 13th to sit for Christmas Dinner).

I believe it has been established that there are approximately 50% 
Muggleborns in Hogwarts at any given time so they'd have plenty of others to 
discuss their interests with. Dean brought his football poster in and hung 
it proudly on his wall where no one gave it a thought except for Ron who 
couldn't understand why the people didn't move.   :-)

Anyway, back to my point... These kids formative years were spent with a 
certain style of music and I would suspect that some will grow up to be WW 
poets and musicians writing music in the same vein as what they enjoyed 
growing up...

PJ