The Statute of Secrecy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 158949

>
> Carol responds:.
> 
> In short, once she chooses the Statute of Secrecy as the reason for
> our lack of knowledge of the WW, she needs means to implement it
> (memory charms, etc.) and her law-abiding characters are obliged to
> obey it. Possibly she could have come up with a better reason and/or
> means of keeping the WW (largely) secret from the RW, but once she's
> chosen this reason/means, she has to follow through with it. Whether
> she was aware of the problems the Statute would cause for her
> characters and her readers when she first conceived of it, I don't
> know. All I'm saying is that once she's committed to that concept,
> both she and her characters are stuck with it.

Pippin:
Any means she came up with would necessarily be flawed, because
it's a flawed world she's writing about, more flawed than Dumbledore
knows. (Hey, even the calendar doesn't work <g>) 

 In a world so flawed and damaged, the choice between good and 
evil must often present itself as a choice between bad and worse. 
But how cruel to say, "I see no difference!"

Pippin