murmur Wrote:Compilation so far:...There are, actually, more than a few "Harry escapes England after discovering Dumbles is manipulating him/planning his death/hogging all the sherbert lemons" where he ends up in America, and Wizarding America almost always is a "more enlightened" place. "Integrated with muggles" isn't living in the open, btw -- it's just that wizards tend to live among muggles as muggles, and not isolate themselves physically or culturally. There is a strong tendency among fan writers to paint Wizarding Britain as the backward child among the magical cultures basically because it is rather crapsack compared to the muggle world, once you get past the sparkles and "ooo wow" factor of being an 11-year-old learning magic. The thing is, what little we see of non-British Wizarding nations paints them in almost the same light. I doubt "canon" America would have been much different had Rowling written about it.
US Mages integrated with muggles (wait, what? How is that relevant? How'd it even come up? Are there a lot of Harry Potter in America stories?)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.