Re: [Harry Potter Official Club] Re: "What If" Question

On 7/13/08, Maria <mariawang14@yahoo.ca> wrote:

Well, i have say it's possible, but not probable.  But they'd have
to take over all 6.6 billion of us!  That's going to take awhile, a
lot of patience and plenty of strategy.   There are a few ways
the 'wixards' can go about it. Either take Muggles by force and
intimidation, or do a whole political propaganda thing; of course, i
don't really think the whole political thing will work very well.
Who is to say Muggles will accept Wizards?  Muggles will probably be
afraid of magic and unwilling to accept wizards. Heck, we'd be more
likely to experiment on them in some secret lab set up by the
government than accept them as our new leaders.  Muggles want to be
free to do our their thing, not succum to this new,
strange 'species' of 'homo sapeins'.   Wizards may offer
convienences of magic, making living a lot easier, but it still
won't be easy to start a whole new way of life.  I'd say Muggles
would put up quite the fight, and we aren't pushovers, and we out
number wizards by the billion.

 

John:

I agree, neither direct force nor a "Meet the Wizards" propaganda campaign would probably work in a world where wizards who came out as such would immediately be feared as potential aggressors. Wizards would be examined by unethical countries (probably at Gitmo) and measures that could be taken against them devised. Wizardkind would probably be hunted to extinction or near-extinction and their magical abilities examined with the intent to use them for military applications. Very unfortunate, but obviously even Rowling saw how such an imbalance of power would be perceived by the Muggle world if wizardkind were to become known.

 

Taking over a country is one thing, the whole world is another.
Voldemort of course, would need help from wizards of the south and
west, i mean he wouldn't get very far if he had the rest of
Wizarding countries uniting agains him.  Of course after taking over
the Muggle world, they'd have to rule it.  Either by democracy or
communism or dictorialship, anarchy, monarchy, or whatever.
I mean they could make slaves of us all, eliminate us all, or simply
govern the way we live.  I rather think it's easier to just kill us
all, though it might take some time to eliminate 6 billion people.

 

John:

Voldemort may have been content (at least initially) with Britain. His biggest ambition was to live forever -- he may not have been concerned with the Muggles of faraway places as they did not directly impinge upon his perceptions of holding absolute wizarding power. What Voldemort did not care about, he did not take the trouble to understand. Which was the biggest part of his downfall, of course.

 

 

It was quite the ambitious undertaking, I think there are just too
many muggels for wizards to take over. 6.6 Billion!  How on earth
are you going to keep track of all that??  And if wizards are have
blood relations, then that's going to be a problem eventually.

~maria

--- In harrypotterofficialclub@yahoogroups.com, "John Distazo"
<John.Distazo@...> wrote:
>
> What if the Wizarding world decided to take over the Muggle world? The idea
> that Dumbledore/Grindelwald had in their youths might have been a starting
> point, but it seems like all of the Wizarding communities, from all across
> the planet, would have to be united on this. So far only three wizarding
> schools have come to light, all in England or Europe -- it is hard to tell
> what the wizarding presence is in the Americas, Africa or Asia.
>
> If Voldemort had any kind of plan, it didn't seem to extend much beyond
> Britain. Of course, he also planned to be immortal, so he may have thought a
> thousand-year reign under the same man (him) was possible. What does anyone
> else think about the chances of the Wizarding world conquering the Muggle
> world?

 

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