Sweeping the shadows into the corners (Was: A sandwich)

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 178761

"Carol, who thinks that the idea of magical nonhumans as "races" 
is misleading and the idea of Giants (or Trolls) becoming civilized 
(made to act like humans) is unfeasible at best"


Precisely. The exact mistake that Hermione, from her Muggleborn 
perspective, is thinking that the other sentient species are just 
funny-looking humans. They aren't. Now, Ron, as a pureblood Wizard, 
makes the opposet mistake--thinking that because they aren't human 
that they are utterly different from us, have nothing in common 
with us, and to try to relate to them as equals is futile and 
a waste of time. The truth is--as it is so often--somewhere 
inbetween.

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other 
forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle 
remains pure in heart."--Iris Murdoch