• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    lol.

    Really though they did explain it. At one point they were open with it and it resulted in witches and wizards being rounded up and murdered. So most just advocated for going underground with magic while a violent subset advocated for using magic to gain total power over muggles.

    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      Except that any witch or wizard of any training could mow down scores of muggles. This is prior to the invention of guns, but any gun pre-civil war era wouldn’t be an issue either.

      I think there are more advanced spells/enchantments that can protect against modern firearms.

      So really it’s about keeping power to themselves, and always has been.

  • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Just like in reality, in the Harry Potter world people feared magic. I don’t think it was explicitly said, but the magical community is much smaller than the muggle one. Witches and wizards are just afraid of being murdered.