RE; SocialChange

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 182098


> Magpie wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/182072>:
> 
> << The books just tend to mirror the Muggle world on that, even when
> the WW should probably have its own history. They have social change
> because they're a riff on us and our history. >>
> 
> The wizarding world remains culturally connected to the Muggle world
> because a very large fraction of wizarding folk are Muggle-born and
> they bring the latest dialect changes, social norms, and gadgets 
with
> them when they enter the wizarding world. 

Magpie:
Not that we really see. The Slug Club in Voldemort's Day is made up 
of Purebloods but for some reason it's all male, just the way it 
would have been at Oxford back in the day, when we've gotten hints 
that the WW didn't follow the Muggle one when it came to sexism. 
After 7 years at school we never see anything in the way of Muggle 
mores influencing anything. It still reads to me as more of a meta 
thing than a world-building thing. (I got the same impression on the 
WOMBAT test when it came to riots and things that seemed to mirror, 
for instance, the 1960s, but didn't even involve Wizards.)

-m