[HPforGrownups] Re: The Quality of a Hogwarts Education

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188190


> bboyminn:
>
> But you assume the only choices are one world or the other, 
> I suspect there are many who live quite comfortably in both
> worlds. 
>   
rick:
You may suspect it, but the canon has scant facts to confirm your 
suspicion.  Ms. Figg, the Squib, is the only person we know for sure 
lives among the muggles.  Mr. W, a mugglephile if there ever was one, 
has to study them second hand, collecting artifacts like plugs and 
trying to puzzle out their meaning and use and quizzing HP about rubber  
ducks.  Even though he's involved policing the misuse of muggle 
artifacts, he is more a muggle archaeologist. 

The Secrecy Statute would seemed to have driven a wedge between the two 
worlds and, therefore, the WW into hiding centuries before.  An 
inconsistency not explained by the canon, however, is the number of 
Wizard/Muggle marriages.  At one point in DH TDL talks about how the two 
worlds were driven apart (witch hunts & later the SS) and the WW into 
hiding and how he's going to return the WW to it's place in the open. 

> bboyminn:
> As to washing clothes, you can simply charm them clean; no 
> waste, no water, no pollution, no energy resources.
>   
rick:
But it's all a JKR joke. She's playing with Clarke's Third Law "Any 
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."  
Since electricity will not work correctly in the presence of magic (Hg 
quoting H, a History), the WW is left cobbling together crude & clumsy 
makeshift simulations of modern conveniences. 

Wash and spin dry in a washer automatically or crank up an antique 
washer complete with ringer (a mangle in the book) and do each piece 
individually? 

-- 

Rick Kennerly
Virginia Beach, VA
www.mouseherder.com 
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