Some canon related WOMBAT wonderings/ MORE questions

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 170268

> Charles:
> 
> I actually considered selecting the house elf thing as the worst
> effect that the ministry has had. But when I thought about it more, 
I
> realized that even with the protection from muggles asking for 
spells
> for all their problems, that the Statute of Secrecy has actually had
> the effect of alienating wizards from muggles to a dangerous point. 
It
> allows the pureblood supremacy myth to continue virtually unchecked.
> It allows the vast majority of wizards to remain almost completely
> ignorant of the muggle world, which places squibs in a terrible
> position. It makes the transition from school to home for muggleborn
> students at Hogwarts much more difficult as their years progress and
> they grow to be more wizard than muggle, thus splitting their 
family.
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> Charles, who thinks that the barriers between the wizard and muggle
> worlds are going to come down by the end of DH.
>

Alla:

Ah. You see I agree with all of your reasons about Statute of 
Secrecy, BUT I am pretty sure ( not 100% but pretty sure) that I read 
somewhere that JKR stated that two worlds will remain separated at 
the end of the book. That is why I am not so sure that JKR sees it as 
worst decision

Hickengruendler:
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> By the way, do you think the rumour about Slytherin returning to 
> Hogwarts is true? I guess not, since I suppose the Sorting Hat 
would 
> have known and told us, but it would have been nice, particularly 
> since house unity probably is a theme in book 7.
>

Alla:

Heee, I do, I do, I do actually. Most of those seem to be rather 
silly occurrences which tell us nothing useful about book 7 (although 
you never know with JKR of course, what is useful and what not).

Just think about it - he returned to *die*, not to continue teaching. 
Makes total sense to me that others accepted back somebody, who was 
their friend at some point, but rather symbolic that he died IMO.

> Hickengruendler:
> 
> Ah, our posts crossed. As I see, you wondered about the Slytherin 
one 
> as well. Even though I do believe that house unity is a theme in 
book 
> 7, I still tend to think this rumor is wrong, because I suppose the 
> Sorting Hat would have told us in OotP, that Slytherin returned. 
> Similarly, I believe that the Sorting Hat really is the Sorting Hat 
> and not a fake one, because Harry was able to pull the Sword of 
> Gryffindor out of it.
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Alla:

Right, snipping your idea about founders being trapped. I do think 
Hat is authentic, lol, it would be too, I don't know fake, if it is 
not.

But I do not think Hat would have necessarily told us, you know? Say 
Slytherin returned day or few days before he was dead. Hat may simply 
not know, because JKR wanted so for plot purposes surprise, no?

Montavilla47:
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> 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.
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Alla:

Right, see above for that very reason I am not sure JKR sees it that 
way, although I agree with Charles and you.