Integrated worlds, separate, or co-existing?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 155033

Tonks:

> Ah, but which is reality and which is fantasy? I 
> think the WW is real and the Muggle world is the 
> illusion. The WW is the ground of reality.

houyhnhnm:

To reply in the spirit of your post:  I've been to 
Hogwarts.  A couple of hours (which passed by like 
minutes) staring at some mouldering old stone walls.  
Coming away with a feeling of "deamy unconcern".  I 
was obliviated alright.  But they failed to remove 
the memory of how I got there (heh, heh) so I know 
where it is (but I'm not telling):-P

What I meant, though, was that arguing about the way 
real world events like the Salem witch trials impacted 
the WW, wondering how Cornelius Agrippa *really* escaped 
from his French jailers, worrying about how the WW, its 
magical beings and beasts, will be affected by global 
warming and habitat destruction (I do), wondering if the 
WW is concerned about nuclear proliferation (I have) and 
whether their magic can really protect them or if they 
are simply in denial about the amount of power Muggles 
have-these are all explorations of the boundary between 
fantasy and reality.

Imagination is real.  But imagination allows us to create 
the unreal. The genius of the Harry Potter books, IMO, lies 
in the way they make us confront that paradox by blurring 
the boundary between the magical world and the Muggle world.  
They would not do so nearly as effectively if the two worlds 
were clearly separate.

It has been the business of human beings for 30-40 thousand 
years (maybe longer) to *real*ize dreams.  But is a realized 
dream truly the dream made real, or is it only a simulacrum 
of the dream.  I guess that's what you were saying.