Magic-Muggle Marriages was Spinner's End as home (wasRe:

Ceridwen ceridwennight at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 27 19:14:56 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 142180

lyraofjordan:
> > But the fact that some witches/wizards can (apparenly) disguise 
> > their magic enough to fall in love with, get engaged and marry 
> > someone before they reveal they are magical (to their spouses' 
> > astonishment) suggests wizards are much better at moving in 
muggle 
> > society than most of the pureblood wizards we've seen seem to be. 
> > 
lealess:
> Either that, or they (1) marry in haste, or (2) use magic's little 
> helper (love potion).

Ceridwen:
There's not much to dating, or at least there wasn't when people 
didn't move in together for a trial or a while.  Sit in the date's 
car, go to the movies, go to dinner, go to a Muggle sporting event, 
go to the beach, dress the way you see other Muggles of the 
appropriate sex dressing, get a kiss good-night, and that's it.  Not 
a whole lot of need for magic that can't be hidden, if for any at all.

Maybe that's why more witches married Muggle men than wizards married 
Muggle women back then?  Witches only had to ride in their Muggle 
date's car, while the wizard would either have to learn how to drive 
(and get hold of a car) or learn how to run the bus systems, and of 
course, how to operate the different currency.

And, to lealess's post about SolitaryTeen!Snape, I was the same way, 
too.  Library for lunch, either the garage or my room at home.  I 
lived in a bad neighborhood, and my mother only socialized with 
people from the church, so that was most of my after-school 
socialization.  And the church wasn't in our neighborhood.  
Replace 'church' with 'Wizarding World', and that may have been 
Snape's upbringing.

Ceridwen.







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