Muggles v wizards redux

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 183257

> > Montavilla47:
> > This is where I start to wonder if JKR is playing some elaborate 
> > mind-game on us.  Because reading this benignly bigoted 
> > toward muggles (us) story produces in people who might
> > normally not personally feel the sting of prejudice that very 
> > same effect.

> lizzyben:
> I wondered that as well sometimes, but IMO this story helps confirm 
> that there's not any irony intended. In a 7-book series, maybe you 
> could say that there's something deeper going on, but this is a 2-
> page story squeezed onto a postcard. And yet JKR still found time 
to 
> make fun of the Muggles. 

Zara:
I don't see that the new story proves anything one way or the other 
regarding Montavilla's proposal. For whatever reason, the series 
includes this near-universal prejudice against Muggles among 
Pureblood (and other wizard-raised) wizards. James and Sirius are two 
characters from that background. So Rowling has the choice of making 
them either 1) uniquely sensitive and thoughtful regarding this 
prejudice or 2) just like the rest. Frankly, I don't think 1) fits 
their characters as revealed in the books. And 2) combined with 
being "the height of cool" makes the interaction with the Muggle cops 
depicted in the notecard story write itself.

Personally, when I heard the story included a motorcycle, James, 
Sirius, and a policeman...I already knew it was going to contain some 
such scene of the Dynamic Duo running afoul of Muggle law 
enforcement, with hilarity ensuing.