[Warded to Purists/Death Eaters]
I must commend the Museum of Magical Britain for the fascinating insight into wizarding history. The new historical exhibit does a fine job of hitting the high points, but I do feel it could delve a little further into our traditions and values. It is such a shame to see such a gathering of individuals at the museum who obviously value our heritage and yet to go out onto the street and see young people in non-traditional clothing looking far more like Muggles than the wizards that they are. Young people should take more pride in themselves and in their history. Soon we shall be completely left without roots or tether and that would be a shame, wouldn't it? A rootless society is a dead society.
In my travels I often encountered magical societies at their most primitive, and found that the more powerful the magics evolved, the farther they were removed from their Muggle counterparts. In fact, what little the Muggles did know of magic portrayed it as something terrible and to be feared, so they stay as far away from anything even slightly suggesting magic for their own safety. How much better would our world be if our own Muggles had a proper respect and fear for magic rather than dismissing it as children's stories. For they do. And perhaps that is why the Muggleborns and Mugglelovers do not take our heritage or our values seriously.
I do think it is time for more to be done to set a good example for our children, that the world they grow up in is not devoid of even the tiniest vestiges of what was once our great and mighty culture.
I must commend the Museum of Magical Britain for the fascinating insight into wizarding history. The new historical exhibit does a fine job of hitting the high points, but I do feel it could delve a little further into our traditions and values. It is such a shame to see such a gathering of individuals at the museum who obviously value our heritage and yet to go out onto the street and see young people in non-traditional clothing looking far more like Muggles than the wizards that they are. Young people should take more pride in themselves and in their history. Soon we shall be completely left without roots or tether and that would be a shame, wouldn't it? A rootless society is a dead society.
In my travels I often encountered magical societies at their most primitive, and found that the more powerful the magics evolved, the farther they were removed from their Muggle counterparts. In fact, what little the Muggles did know of magic portrayed it as something terrible and to be feared, so they stay as far away from anything even slightly suggesting magic for their own safety. How much better would our world be if our own Muggles had a proper respect and fear for magic rather than dismissing it as children's stories. For they do. And perhaps that is why the Muggleborns and Mugglelovers do not take our heritage or our values seriously.
I do think it is time for more to be done to set a good example for our children, that the world they grow up in is not devoid of even the tiniest vestiges of what was once our great and mighty culture.
