Secondly, it restricts the trade that takes place between wizards and Muggles, and so will reduce though not prevent completely the trickling down of magical artefacts into Muggle hands, the effects of which can be distressing or harmful to the Muggle in question. Whereas before a Dark wizard mixing with Muggles may not have been spotted, any wizard performing magic near a Muggle is taken note of, and investigated suitably. This noble act could have protected the Muggles in a number of ways.įor a start, with the separation of the two worlds, it will have been far easier for the Wizards Council, and more recently the Ministry of Magic, to prevent Dark wizards attacking and controlling and profiting unethically from the Muggles. I can only think of one possible option, unlikely as it sounds: we wizards removed ourselves from the Muggle world for their own protection. So, with fear of Muggles and the simple desire to be left alone counted out - though these may have played a part in the split – there must remain another factor which counted towards the irreparable tear between our two worlds. There are many spells capable of repelling Muggles (for example, the Muggle repelling charms placed on Hogwarts school, and on the Quidditch World Cup stadium) if the split was simply because of one wanting to avoid Muggles, then these spells could be cast. The dubious morality of holding back such solutions aside, is this enough of a reason for a split between the two worlds? I do not think so. It certainly makes sense: if Muggles did know about the wizarding world, and about many of the things that we can do, it is likely that they would desire magical solutions to a variety of their problems. Indeed, though Rubeus Hagrid is most certainly no historian, this view is one that is popular over all magical Britain, and one which I have found in my own research to be repeated back to me by many wizards and witches. Nah, we’re best left alone.” ( PS/SS, British paperback, pg.
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When Harry Potter, our saviour from the Dark Lord, reluctantly allowed his life story to be published under the guise of a series of Muggle novels, he recollects being told, in his first meeting with a magical person, “ everyone’d be wantin’ magic solutions to their problems. What then, if not fear, motivated the split between Muggles and wizards? I fear that, without any writings surviving from those people making the decisions of the time, any conclusions we may draw on this matter are but conjecture, but there are several attempts we can make to see if we can explain the rift. At the time that the statute was signed, Muggles were vastly inferior to wizards, much more so than today, and wizards had nothing to fear in the least. We forget, when looking at the Muggles of today and their impressive ways of compensating for magic, that they did not always have this technology. No, it seems doubtful that the retreat of the wizards was motivated by fear, and indeed this makes sense. In A History of Magic, by Adalbert Waffling, he notes, “ On the rare occasion they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever.”
Muggle persecution of wizards at this time was reaching a pitch hitherto unknown it is not the aim of this work to discuss the dark days that preceded the wizards retreat into hiding.Īre we then to assume, by Scamander’s phrase, retreat into hiding, that the separation of the two worlds was a result of fear on the wizards part? Not only is this a rather large hit to take on our wizarding pride, it is rather inconsistent with the writings of other scholars. In his popular work, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander notes,
As early as 1362, at a time when witch burnings were common, the Wizards Council of the time banned all Quidditch within 50 miles of a town or village. Though the statute was passed in 1692, wizards had been removing themselves from the Muggle world long before then.
Many have wondered what could have motivated the act, and how things may have been different had it not happened. In 1692, at a meeting of The International Confederation of Wizards, The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy came into effect, and from that point on the wizarding world and the Muggle worlds were separated forever.
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