Future projections of Wizarding Society post war.

[John]

No: HPFGUIDX 192417






--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "corey" <coverton1982 at ...> wrote:
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> Talking on the whole topic, I think I wonder what Filch went through when he was younger before Hogwarts? I kind of feel sorry for him cause there was all this magic around and he couldn't do any of it.
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> Corey
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Hi Corey.
Don't know why but this query seems to be off into another topic, rather than under the original heading, but just to reply anyway, I suspect that Filch became the embittered 'old geeza' he is because he was very badly treated by the Wizarding World in general and possibly even his own parents for being a Squib.

He would possibly (even probably)  have been viewed by his family as an 'embarrassment' especially if they were Purebloods and shipped off to a normal muggle school and kept hidden away from the eyes of the wizarding world.

As a result he became as he is, both jealous of those who possess magic, perhaps even slightly fearful of it but feeling let down by the world because he too should possess it. I suspect he is in a similar mental state that Petunia was at being 'rejected' but that at some stage Dumbledore or an earlier headmaster must have taken pity on him and given him the post he holds in the school.

In my  personal 'future projection' of the evolution of wizarding society, which sees considerable change to the post war wizarding world and it's relationship to the muggle world I suggest many changes come about. Some forced because the shock of what happened made many finally see that the tragedies of their recent past were actually brought about because of the hidebound and corrupt Ministry of the past, embodied by the attitudes present in the institution under Fudge inherited from his predecesors. Also the war was due to the narrow  minded and supremacist attitudes of the Purebloods who dominated, (as they thought by right), their fellow witches and wizards. Tom Riddle Jnr was in fact a symptom of the rot, not it's cause.

As a result of these forced realisations and tragically hard learned lessons I see the Muggleborns bringing much change about, especially given that Hermione Granger with her strong sense of justice has become such a heroine and gained much respect and influence. Indeede, asI have said in later life I see her as a 'shoe in' for Minister herself, after working for Kingsley in his brilliant reforming administration. Of course no repeal of repressive laws or change in public perception can cause someone who's magic has failed to materialise for them to gain magical ability, that would be absurd. The problem of the Squibs would therefore still remain, although perhaps with less stigma attached, with them seen perhaps much in the way we now view differently abled people. 

However, in my fan fiction projection, (and thanks for the nudge towards this as it's set me thinking), I will be adding that the Squibs can play a very useful role in the 'rapprochement' I see as happening between magical and non magical folk. I will not go back and repeat why I think this coming together must happen and I know some here disagree, but in the two small 'living together' experiments I see as being authorised by The Ministry in a limited experiment in co-habitation somebody like Argus Filch, and all other Squibs, particularly those cast out into the muggle world and used to the culture could at last play a very useful role as 'go betweens' and 'liason officers', having a 'foot in each camp'.

Indeed I feel this 'useful role' and some law changes would give back a degree of pride to the Squibs and make them feel that finally they are being permitted to have a useful and fulfilling place in wizarding society.

Many Blessings.
John, (Oriondruid).