"Pathetic" Muggle-borns

[afn01288]

No: HPFGUIDX 178556

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at ...> 
wrote:
> 
> I agree. I mean, we are constantly shown, in the other 6 books, how
> things that can be very problematic for Muggles, are dealt with very
> easily by wizards. And then suddenly, we are supposed to believe 
that
> Muggleborns, with or without their wands, are somehow even more
> helpless than even normal Muggles would be? That doesn't make any
> sense to me. 

afn replies:
Muggle-borns like those begging in Diagon Alley in DH spent their 
lives from 11 years old on learning the skills of working and 
succeeding in the WW. What they have been educated to do is taken 
from them and they are without alternative skills. Muggles presumably 
from age 11 on have educational opportunities, training, and 
socialization for adult work and fitting in with the MW that Muggle-
born wizards and witches under LV lack due to training only in magic 
as opposed to RW skills not needing wands.  

Also, we only see *some* Muggle-borns begging in Diagon Alley.  Maybe 
they represent the extreme minority of Muggleborns educated in the WW 
and unable to cope.  Though they are not exactly like the untrained 
Merope in HBP or the isolated Trelawney thrown out in OoP, they may 
represent the least able to adapt and change back to the RW and not 
the majority of Muggle-borns deprived or asked to hand over wands in 
DH.