thought of cheerleaders first, too, but Arthur's "creatures" comment put me off. It doesn't sound as though "creatures" were on the same level with wizards
To me, that only emphasises the "reverse bigotry" of the wizarding world. I think it was on your LJ a week or so ago where we were talking about how wizard's consider humans to be like little children and are very condescending towards them... Well, here Arthur makes these beings out to be something less than Wizard/human... paralleling Lucius' attitude towards Muggles, and the Wizarding attitude towards muggles in a more general way. I've always seen it as a way to show that even the 'good guys' have issues.
Then again, maybe JKR wasn't trying for that at all, maybe she just considers non-humans to be creatures in context of her world.
The Floo network, if I remember correctly, was seen as somewhat unstable and unreliable (with Apparating being more dangerous, and brooms being less dangerous but also less convenient). Also, you can only use it for one destination at a time, making it a very crowded way to communicate. I've also always thought that, with Hogwart's at least, things were warded in a way that made it difficult to get through... you don't see it happening often, and if you're using Sirius firecalling Harry as an example, well - A. Sirius was already a fugitive and thus could resort to less than perfect means, and B. Dumbledore may have allowed him special access.
The thing with Barty Crouch acting like Moody without being found out by Moody's old friend Dumbledore is ridiculous
That's because Dumbledore is Teh EVIL, of course. I'm sure he was in on the whole thing. Testing moral fiber my arse. Pfft.
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Date: 2005-01-17 12:37 pm (UTC)To me, that only emphasises the "reverse bigotry" of the wizarding world. I think it was on your LJ a week or so ago where we were talking about how wizard's consider humans to be like little children and are very condescending towards them... Well, here Arthur makes these beings out to be something less than Wizard/human... paralleling Lucius' attitude towards Muggles, and the Wizarding attitude towards muggles in a more general way. I've always seen it as a way to show that even the 'good guys' have issues.
Then again, maybe JKR wasn't trying for that at all, maybe she just considers non-humans to be creatures in context of her world.
The Floo network, if I remember correctly, was seen as somewhat unstable and unreliable (with Apparating being more dangerous, and brooms being less dangerous but also less convenient). Also, you can only use it for one destination at a time, making it a very crowded way to communicate. I've also always thought that, with Hogwart's at least, things were warded in a way that made it difficult to get through... you don't see it happening often, and if you're using Sirius firecalling Harry as an example, well - A. Sirius was already a fugitive and thus could resort to less than perfect means, and B. Dumbledore may have allowed him special access.
The thing with Barty Crouch acting like Moody without being found out by Moody's old friend Dumbledore is ridiculous
That's because Dumbledore is Teh EVIL, of course. I'm sure he was in on the whole thing. Testing moral fiber my arse. Pfft.