Middle Age ways of the Wizarding World

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 159323

> Sandy now:
> This is something that has aiways confounded me about the Muggle 
born/raised students at Hogwarts; how willing they are to give up 
all their Muggle  comforts for the sake of going to Hogwarts. I 
would think it goes even further than that. If they are educated as 
witches and wizards it stands to reason that they 
> will continue to live in the WW after they leave Hogwarts. It all 
sounds so charming as you are reading the books, but think about the 
last time you went through a power failure. It is the only life the 
WW knows, but that is not the case for Muggle born/raised. You have 
Hermione, who is the only child of two dentists, which leads me to 
believe she lived in relative affluence, and she gives all that up 
to become a witch?!? As fascinating as the concept of magic 
> is, I couldn't do it. 
> 

Tonks:
Well it is no different than people who give up modern comforts to 
go to under developed countries, like with the Peace Corp, etc. Or 
those who go to some of the more strict monasteries where, while 
they have furnaces, it is still freezing cold in the winter and they 
lack most of the modern conforts that the rest of us take for 
granted. And then there are those who leave the modern world to live 
in the backwoods places. I have met people who were happy to leave 
the city and go deep into the woods of Northern Michigan without 
electricity or running water. Not my cup of tea, but people do do it.
So it doesn't seem that odd to me that Muggleborns would be willing 
to give up the comforts of the Muggle world to be with their own 
kind. After a while you just forget what you have left behind.

Tonks_op