Muggles v wizards redux

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 183227

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" 
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > Alla:
> What makes you 
> > believe that you are the same as muggles of potterverse? SNIP


> Magpie:
> I guess because it seems like it's obviously supposed to be...the 
> world. SNIP 

> But it doesn't matter whether their world is literally my world. I 
> was transported to this AU I would immediately be a Muggle. There's 
> nothing to distinguish me from the Muggles in the books because I'm 
a 
> person that can't do magic and that's the whole definition of what 
a 
> Muggle is. How Wizards feel about Muggles are the way they'd feel 
> about me. They'd treat me the same way they treat their Muggles.

a_svirn:
Exactly my feeling. By the only definition of Muggles we were given 
in the books is that they are non-magical people. It is a definition 
that applies to me. And in the Potterverse people who are "just like 
me" are universally patronised often despised and routinely 
abused "for their own good". Well, it does make me uneasy.