Integrated worlds, separate, or co-existing?

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 154945

> >>Sandra:
> <snip>
> I can appreciate the 'masking' effect, but in order for that to    
> work and mask an entire town (eg  where Diagon Alley is), the      
> magical world would be hiding itself  away on an enormous scale - 
> and someone at the Ministry  would have to ask themselves the 
> question "Why are we  bothering?"
> After all, people with magical powers have easy  control over 
> muggles as demonstrated when Harry gets cross in book three and   
> makes his aunt swell up like a balloon. And we all know the power 
> of Voldermort, as well. So why hide their world away from an      
> obviously inferior 'race'?
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Because Muggles ain't that inferior. <g>  Seriously, it seems fairly 
obvious to me that there was a conflict between Muggles and Wizards 
and the Wizards lost.  They lost so badly they not only went into 
deep, deep, *deep* hiding (erasing everything but the barest whisper 
of their existence) they took their *animals* with them!!

I mean, it's fairly easy to imagine hiding away from a superior 
enemy (logistical nightmare, but possible), but to drag your dogs 
and cats and cows and crocodiles and elephants and *knats* into 
hiding as well?  (Forget dragons, whose job was it to squirrel away 
the fairies?  Or the pixies?)  This is not a task entered into 
lightly.  And it's not a task undertaken by winners.

Nope, I'm fairly confident that when it comes down to it, the 
Muggles have it all over the Wizards.  Maybe not in one on one 
battles, but as a group?  I'll take science over magic any day of 
the week.  Muggles just do it better.  Proof:  Pants and cars, my 
friends, pants and cars.  Seriously, trousers have it all over 
robes.  And try and arrange a family journey without a car.  Look at 
the problems the Weasleys run into trying to get everyone to the 
train station.  And they're not dealing with toddlers. 

Sure, the wizards talk a good game, all condescension and mild 
threatenings.  But when it come down to it, who has to sneak out to 
their favorite sporting event, and who has an entire government 
formed around keeping their existance a secret?

Oh yeah, one of these groups is superior, and it ain't the 
parasitical wizards.  Not when they have to keep their *insects* a 
secret.

Betsy Hp (muggle and proud of it! <bg>)