Oh yes yes. The Statute of Secrecy seems like the elephant in the room to me. How can anyone suggest the WW isn't racist (or whatever-ist) down to its core when the whole thing is based on *hiding* from this other group of people. For instance, I've been surprised by conversations where one person will suggest that Wizards are afraid of Muggles for any number of reasons (outnumbered, destructive weapons, etc.) and another person will point out that canon contradicts this--we never see them afraid. And that's true...but what of the secrecy? Why are they hiding if Muggles are so silly? And why does their society seem to often borrow so much from them? They don't even have more than one village in G.B.!
So yeah, I think there's a lot of mixed feelings that wizards would have for these lower forms of wizards. And especially when you add Squibs into the mix it it's hard to ignore the extreme prejudice.
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Date: 2006-04-25 09:09 pm (UTC)So yeah, I think there's a lot of mixed feelings that wizards would have for these lower forms of wizards. And especially when you add Squibs into the mix it it's hard to ignore the extreme prejudice.