Squib!Harry in the WW (was:Re: The Scar)

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 160341

 Ken: " There is no getting around the fact that canon implies that
 intermarriage is reasonably common, the numbers speak for
 themselves."

Betsy Hp: "How do you figure that? We have a bare handful of wizard
marriages
described, and an even tinier portion of that are of the
non-magical/magical variety. Now, I'm not mathametician, but even I
can see that you have no proper statistics to play with here. JKR has
not given us enough information to make those sort of judgements,
IMO."

JKR doesn't imply wizard / muggle marriages; she just says so.

"It's a disgusting thing to call someone," said Ron, wiping his sweaty
brow with a shaking hand. "Dirty blood, see. Common blood. It's
ridiculous. Most wizards these days are half-blood anyway. If we
hadn't married Muggles we'd've died out."
(Chamber of Secrets, pg. 115 American)

Other examples are too numerous to list.

I submit that Ron's gotten the word from JKR to make this speech. "How
come I have to do all this backstory exposition, Ms. Rowling?"  
" Somebody has to do it, and you're Harry and Hermione's guide to the
wizard world for at least the first two books." 
"Oh, all right, but remember you promised I can play on the Quidditch
team." 

Prejudice against half-bloods and Muggle-borns is a major issue in the
entire Harry Potter  story; wizard purity and "ethnic" bigotry is a
big part of the Death Eater credo.

Betsy, you seem to be denying a major theme of all JKR's work. Yes,
there is  a lot of separation and misunderstanding between the worlds
(I once wrote a fic about a loving Muggle father whose child gets the
letter and the anguish it give him), but Muggle-wizard marriages are
common and necessary for the wizard world to survive.  Without them,
the wizard world would fade, like so many other excessively insular
groups.  It's been argued that the wizard world is suffering from low
birth rates even with Muggle intermarriage.

Harry could find a place in the wizarding world if he lost his powers.
He'd still be wizarding folk, like Filch or Mrs. Figg, but with more
distinction than any wizard ever has had. Whether or not he'd choose
it is another discussion. I believe he would, but there's no way to
prove that.