Identifying with Muggles in Potterverse WAS: Re: DD at th...

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 158213

> Betsy Hp:
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> I wonder if it has to do with when the WW went into hiding.  Did 
> they hide before the Renaissance?  It would go along way towards 
> explaining the darkness of their world.
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> Exactly.  That's the saddest thing, to my mind.  That these solid 
> English families have no idea about Shakespeare, for example.  Have 
> no clue about the many contributions their nation has made to the 
> world.  And they don't have the equivilant.  (Honestly, how could 
> they?)  Certainly, *they* don't know what they're missing, but it 
> makes me sad for them.

a_svirn:
Well, the stature of secrecy is 1696 or something, a century after 
Shakespeare. So why wouldn't they know about him? Wizards and muggles 
had a shared culture at the time.