I have a question.
Sep. 21st, 2004 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Why do the wizards in Harry Potter live like they do?
If I were a member of a group of wizards back when there isn't much of a magical community and our kind was being persecuted, I wouldn't go back to live next to the people who 1. I didn't trust and 2. I would have to hide out from. The wizards in Harry Potter can expand space! They can hide things, even big things, completely from muggles. So why not collect the entire wizarding population and put it on an island or island chain somewhere in the ocean? There'd certainly be no need to limit the population growth, as long as you can expand space and build upwards. Okay, there might be a limit to how much they can expand space... but how high could that limit be? If they had several people working at it? Why would Hogsmeade have to be the largest wizard community in Britain? Why not collect all the wizards in one place from the beginning?
No sense, none at all.
Better question: Why don't the wizard supremacists/separatists separate more? Given how long the two worlds have been separate, you'd expect far more divergence in their language (even with a steady influx of muggle students, who after all could've been taken from their parents at birth, and the birth parents could've had their memories modified - memories are modified all the time), and their devices. Why toilets that flush into the lake (eww!)? Why not some sort of teleportation field - maybe an always-open floo - that opens into a volcano? Why sinks? Why not a magical "all purpose cleaner" for your hands? Why do they have to lug ink and pens around? Couldn't they find a way to, say, dictate their papers? Well, that one's a bit far-fetched.
If I were a member of a group of wizards back when there isn't much of a magical community and our kind was being persecuted, I wouldn't go back to live next to the people who 1. I didn't trust and 2. I would have to hide out from. The wizards in Harry Potter can expand space! They can hide things, even big things, completely from muggles. So why not collect the entire wizarding population and put it on an island or island chain somewhere in the ocean? There'd certainly be no need to limit the population growth, as long as you can expand space and build upwards. Okay, there might be a limit to how much they can expand space... but how high could that limit be? If they had several people working at it? Why would Hogsmeade have to be the largest wizard community in Britain? Why not collect all the wizards in one place from the beginning?
No sense, none at all.
Better question: Why don't the wizard supremacists/separatists separate more? Given how long the two worlds have been separate, you'd expect far more divergence in their language (even with a steady influx of muggle students, who after all could've been taken from their parents at birth, and the birth parents could've had their memories modified - memories are modified all the time), and their devices. Why toilets that flush into the lake (eww!)? Why not some sort of teleportation field - maybe an always-open floo - that opens into a volcano? Why sinks? Why not a magical "all purpose cleaner" for your hands? Why do they have to lug ink and pens around? Couldn't they find a way to, say, dictate their papers? Well, that one's a bit far-fetched.
