The Statute of Secrecy

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 159137

Ken:
> 
> I think it far more likely that St. Mungo's would be deluged
> with Muggles seeking treatement for diseases we cannot 
> cure. I think it far more likely that Hogwarts woul be 
> deluged with physicists wanting to study the relationship
> between magic and the rest of physics. I think it far more
> likely that energy companies would vie for the rights to 
> the limitless, non-polluting energy source the WW taps
> into. The WW seems to have the solutions for many of our
> problems, isn't it extremely selfish of them to keep these
> wonderful technologies from a world that needs them
> so desperately? <snip>

Carol responds:
I'm not so sure. Wizards can mend broken bones and broken noses with a
spell (wonder why Dumbledore's and Ludo Bagman's weren't mended?), but
Mad-Eye Moody can't regrow his missing parts and the school still
seems to suffer an annual outbreak of flu. I don't see any cures for
cancer or other familiar diseases in the WW, not even the common cold.
They use quill pens and parchment like Muggles in the Middle Ages and
candles for lighting (ever try grading essays or doing homework by
candlelight?). Hogwarts is so cold in winter that kids wear cloaks and
gloves in the corridors. (Durmstrang must be nearly unbearable.) They
don't have computers or telephones or even cars.) Yes, some of them
can Apparate, but they can't teach that skill to Muggles even if they
wanted to.

Carol, who likes the WW *because* it doesn't have modern technology
but thinks that Wizards have as much to learn from us as we do from them