Some canon related WOMBAT wonderings/ MORE questions

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 170266

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> 
wrote:
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> Alla previously;
> > Soooo, I was fascinated by some of WOMBAT questions and their 
> > relation to canon, if they are true and would love to discuss it 
> here.
> > 
> > I am copying those few questions from what Chancie so graciously 
> > typed up on OTC list. Thank you so much for doing it.
> > <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
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Not that I'm going to recopy the questions here.

I ended up choosing as the worst decision the enactment of the Statue 
of Secrecy and as the best decision the Gringotts Banking.

Although, I believe JKR has nixed the idea of the Wizarding World 
integrating with the Muggle World, I do think that the secrecy has damaged 
the Wizarding World in many ways.

One of those ways is the breaking apart of families when a wizard is born
into a Muggle family.  A second is that the interbreeding between a limited
number of pureblood wizards is genetically dangerous.  A third is that 
lack of contact with the Muggle world imposes difficulty for Squibs, as 
they try to create a life without magic.  Fourth, while it may have been
true that Muggles were asking that the Wizards do things for him, we've 
made a lot of progress since in terms of technology and science.  By
segregating themselves from the Muggle world, Wizards are denying 
themselves the benefit of that innovation--as well as the benefits
of Muggle art, music, and literature.

As for the banking issue.  Well, not to be unkind, but Wizards don't 
seem to be very good in math skills.  I'm sure that they can add and 
subtract, but how many Wizards are going to understand an 
amortization chart?  I might reconsider my answer if they were to 
add some basic math (as opposed to Arithmancy) classes to the 
Hogwarts curriculum.

Montavilla47