Middle Age ways of the Wizarding World

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 159389

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, OctobersChild48 at ... wrote:
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> 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. 
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Quick_Silver:
            I like your point but I waver towards the exact opposite 
of it almost. The impression I get from the muggle-borns and the 
half-bloods raised among muggles is that they know they 
are "special". Harry, Hermione, Tom Riddle, Colin Creevy all mention 
knowing that they can do weird things...Tom Riddle had already begun 
to control his power when he encounters Dumbledore. To the wizarding 
child raised in the wizarding world Hogwarts and magic is simply a 
fact of life...to the muggle-borns and half-bloods like Harry it's 
the Promised Land.
        
Quick_Silver