But you're all thinking it's a fate worse than death and that sort of mentality spills out. It must do.
I've been learning magic for five years. I've found it breaks down into two categories: There are spells that create effects which Muggles can't do yet and there are spells that are, essentially, short-cuts to the Muggle method. That's an over-simplification, what, but it makes the point, I think. There are other ways to do nearly any task. Where wizards have spells, Muggles invent machines, what.
And the things they can't yet do are probably only a matter of time. Magic does achieve wonderful things and makes life easier, in some ways.
But it seems to me that this...attitude.... It rather strikes at the heart of everything the Order profess to believe. If the Order really believe that Muggles are not second-class to wizards, then living as a Muggle ought not to have such a stigma as you and Ron and--well, everyone else--are attaching to it.
Perhaps we ought to make everyone with a wand live without magic for a year after they finish school, once the war's won. That way they'd appreciate the immense gift it is but they would also realise it's not the bally old end of the world to get by without it, what.
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Date: 2013-12-01 04:40 am (UTC)But you're all thinking it's a fate worse than death and that sort of mentality spills out. It must do.
I've been learning magic for five years. I've found it breaks down into two categories: There are spells that create effects which Muggles can't do yet and there are spells that are, essentially, short-cuts to the Muggle method. That's an over-simplification, what, but it makes the point, I think. There are other ways to do nearly any task. Where wizards have spells, Muggles invent machines, what.
And the things they can't yet do are probably only a matter of time. Magic does achieve wonderful things and makes life easier, in some ways.
But it seems to me that this...attitude.... It rather strikes at the heart of everything the Order profess to believe. If the Order really believe that Muggles are not second-class to wizards, then living as a Muggle ought not to have such a stigma as you and Ron and--well, everyone else--are attaching to it.
Perhaps we ought to make everyone with a wand live without magic for a year after they finish school, once the war's won. That way they'd appreciate the immense gift it is but they would also realise it's not the bally old end of the world to get by without it, what.
-J