Muggles v wizards redux

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No: HPFGUIDX 183230

> 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.


Alla:

Yes, muggles are people who cannot do magic, but are they indeed just 
like you? When you think about Muggles are you not picturing specific 
characters that we met or are you picturing all those unfamiliar 
people whose only trait is the fact that they cannot do magic?

I am just trying to explain why it is so hard for me to identify, if 
that makes sense. I am not like Dursleys for example, I really am 
not, so I just do not see how the fact that they cannot do magic, 
just like I can't can envoke empathy from me. Just explaining how I 
feel, that's all.