Future projections of Wizarding Society post war.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 192413



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "John" <oriondruid at ...> wrote:
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> Why do I think this likely to include a change in attitude to muggle technology and innovations in general? One simple reason, the rise in acceptance and influence of Muggleborn witches and wizards such as Hermione Granger, people who are fully capable of bridging both worlds, can understand and use muggle technology and see where in certain ways it can be superior to magical methods.

> In my personal fan fiction future projection of post war Wizarding World I have written several stories featuring these changes and pointing out where Muggle technology might well be adopted, and why.
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> To start with I make an assumption, that the rate of magical children born to non magical families may tend to rise, as the possession of magic is a very strong 'survival trait' and therefore simple natural selection may play a part, assuming there is a genetic base for the ability to possess and utilise magic. If true these Muggleborns might well prove a spearhead for new attitudes to emerge.

Pippin:
As has been pointed out, in Darwinian evolution genes don't select themselves, although magical genes might be able to. 

But what advantage do magical genes confer?   Muggles are thriving and their numbers are increasing exponentially -- wizards, not so much.   Magic might be an advantage in a hostile and highly magical environment such as the Forbidden Forest,  but few such environments exist nowadays. 

Possibly in their drive to become the dominant magical species and to eradicate or contain "dark creatures" the wizards  altered the world so much  that magic itself was no longer a necessary adaptation for humans. 

Meanwhile there must be a damper on the multiplication of magical genes in the populace, or we'd be an all-magical species already, like dragons or House Elves. 

The unhappy results of the purebloods' experiment in selective breeding suggests that  in humans some magical genes may be lethal in combination, or adaptive only if you inherit one copy, not two. 


In any case, Wizards have decided that they can live as they wish only by keeping their existence a secret -- and this can only lead to the sort of constructive paranoia that views every innovation with suspicion, because there's no way anyone can prove that it's *not* going to make wizards more visible to Muggles. Every magical act carries the risk of detection, and any incidence of detection could be the tipping point that pitches Muggles into taking magic seriously again. 

Hermione wouldn't want that to happen.  

 She's also discovered that many people aren't as adaptable as she is, and suffer when things change too quickly, even if the changes themselves are positive. So I imagine her push is to show that  Muggleborns  adapt successfully to the wizards' way of life, not to sell wizards on the benefits of Facebook. 

I understand that the coming generation of Muggleborns would be very unhappy to have to give up their smartphones and such -- but wizards seem to think, like Hobbits or late Victorians, that everything necessary to the quiet enjoyment of life has been invented already. 


Pippin