Muggle vs. Wizardling geopolitics, was Re: Christmas

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 167214

Magpie wrote:
"
I mean, one might also ask why Wizards have countries the same as Muggles 
do, following our borders, if they're their own world. But the seem to have 
that too. Whatever they claim about being cut off, and whatever Arthur's 
ignorance, they seem to always be a section of whatever society in which 
they live, and not really a world totally of their own."


Wizardling political boundaries do not always follow Muggle ones.  Ireland has
been independent of Britain (except for the Six Counties) for some time, but the
British Ministry of Magic seems to regulate Irish wizardry still.  Also,
Transylvania seems to be a separate political unit among Wizards, but in the
Muggle world it is divided between Romania and Hungary.

Bruce Alan Wilson

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