Muggles v wizards redux

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 183235

> Alla:
>
> Just adding something. Just as I cannot sympathize much with 
muggles 
> because they cannot do magic, I really am not identifying with 
wizards 
> because they CAN do magic, if that makes sense?

a_svirn:
Sure it does, but it seems to me that it is a completely different 
issue. You are basically saying that muggles are just too 
insignificant for the story to be bothered with. They are of course, 
but they are there nevertheless, the ever-present foil to the 
Wizarding world, and Rowling is *very* persistent in bringing them 
up. I mean, OK for the Dursleys, but why on earth do we need the 
entire chapter about the Muggle minister? Does it add anything 
significant to the plot? Nope. If Rowling wanted us to understand 
that the Muggle world is likewise affected by Voldemort she could 
have Kingsley to say something relevant at the Order meeting. And yet 
we are emphatically treated to a yet another show of muggle 
inferiority, and invited to chuckle at the spectacle of their 
humiliation. Moreover, we are told in the interview that it is a very 
important chapter, one she wanted to squeeze in the second book 
first, but saved for later. It looks like it is an imperative with 
Rowling to show muggles as inferiors and she goes to considerable 
lengths to achieve it. And much as I'd like not to bother about them, 
thanks to Rowling's persistence I can't help doing just that.  
a_svirn