The secrecy motif

[Bob Connors]

No: HPFGUIDX 179990

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> Montavilla47:
> I don't disagree with you, Bob. Yes, it's a two-way street.

> But... how can the Muggles fear the wizards when they don't
> even know that Wizards exist? 


Bob:

But we have known that they existed, and we feared them.  Look at what we have done to them over the years - the most famous I think would be Salem, Mass.  We muggles don't understand them, don't know them, don't trust them, therefore we fear them.

Just imagine what the pacifists would be doing - register your wands?  Wand control? Only crooks and cops should have them?  It is sort of funny to think of them in that way.
 
Bob