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Topic	Watched Fantastic Beasts 2 last night (Spoilers likely)
Anagram 11/18/18 6:25:22 PM #24:	Grand Kirby posted... I mean, the whole reason the International Statute of Secrecy exists is because of the threats Muggles posed to wizards. You don't spend all that effort hiding from people you think are jokes. And while it was mentioned that some witches escaped from the hunts unscathed, canonically a lot of witches and wizards did die during it particularly in the Salem Witch Trials, which is why No-Maj sentiment is so strong in America. So Muggles are capable of posing some threat. Of course, how much logically they could harm wizards isn't important, what matters in the context of Grindelwald's plan is how much he can get people to think they're in danger so that they can follow him. And it's not like people are easily swayed by unfounded hysteria against communities that are different from them, right? >_> I'm sure some wizards realize that muggles could be a threat, but Johnny Depp is trying to whip large numbers into a frenzy. I know it's just one room, but the room is clearly supposed to represent many more wizards, and Johnny Depp seems to think there will be more sympathetic anti-muggle wizards around. Besides, looking up the Harry Potter wiki, the only confirmed witch hunts that killed actual witches were in Salem. Like I can accept that wizards are being misled into thinking that muggles are a threat to them, but it needs to be set up better. There needs to be a news article about Flerpinius Brazenwonker, famous wizard, killed by a muggle in a bar, or something like that. There needs to be two extras talking about these newfangled muggle murder machines called "tanks." You need a wizard in the background glaring at the American guy because he's a muggle and everyone is afraid of the muggle. Instead there's zero indication that the Harry Potter world of the 1920s is different from the 1990s world in how it views muggles until Johnny Depp tells people out of nowhere that there's another world war on the horizon. --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005 <cite>Anagram posted [p:912634557] in Watched Fa... [t:77207418]...</cite> <quote><cite>Grand Kirby posted...</cite> <quote>I mean, the whole reason the International Statute of Secrecy exists is because of the threats Muggles posed to wizards. You don't spend all that effort hiding from people you think are jokes. And while it was mentioned that some witches escaped from the hunts unscathed, canonically a lot of witches and wizards did die during it particularly in the Salem Witch Trials, which is why No-Maj sentiment is so strong in America. So Muggles are capable of posing some threat. Of course, how much logically they could harm wizards isn't important, what matters in the context of Grindelwald's plan is how much he can get people to think they're in danger so that they can follow him. And it's not like people are easily swayed by unfounded hysteria against communities that are different from them, right? >_></quote> I'm sure some wizards realize that muggles could be a threat, but Johnny Depp is trying to whip large numbers into a frenzy. I know it's just one room, but the room is clearly supposed to represent many more wizards, and Johnny Depp seems to think there will be more sympathetic anti-muggle wizards around. Besides, looking up the Harry Potter wiki, the only confirmed witch hunts that killed actual witches were in Salem. Like I can accept that wizards are being misled into thinking that muggles are a threat to them, but it needs to be set up better. There needs to be a news article about Flerpinius Brazenwonker, famous wizard, killed by a muggle in a bar, or something like that. There needs to be two extras talking about these newfangled muggle murder machines called "tanks." You need a wizard in the background glaring at the American guy because he's a muggle and everyone is afraid of the muggle. Instead there's zero indication that the Harry Potter world of the 1920s is different from the 1990s world in how it views muggles until Johnny Depp tells people out of nowhere that there's another world war on the horizon. --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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