[ SECRET POST #3357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3357 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

MTE about the jewish stuff. There was no outcry among jewish communities when she implied that WWII and the holocaust were (in part) connected to Grindelwald.
Belief systems (christianity, judaism, islam) are conspicuously absent in the magic world, and so it would only make sense to have a native american wizard community that is separate from the single tribal beliefs and culture and instead forms the basis for different myths that came to be through no-maj (ugh) natives interpreting magic as their deities and other forces manifesting themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

That actually wasn't what I was commenting on at all.

Christianity, Judiasm, and certainly not Islam, none of these are the original religions of the European peoples. The magic community is more based on the original Pagan mythology and belief of the populations of Europe (in particular, Britain).

The only equivalent in the US is Native American beliefs. It makes perfect sense that JKR went there.

[diet_poison]

no-maj (ugh)

That's probably my single biggest bone with the new information. wtf is wrong with "muggle"?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

It's a word with a very British feel to it. I can understand wanting to replace it for Americans, but if the replacement is "no-maj"? then that just sounds awkward.

[diet_poison]

idk, I guess, but the majority of words in the language are the same between Britain and the US. If she really wanted to make it one of those dialectical words that changes like "boot" and "jumper" she could have but like you said "no-maj" doesn't sound good. Frankly I think it sounds terrible as well as being super not-clever.

But I don't think it would have been a stretch at all to just assume "muggle" was carried across the pond like most of the rest of the language. It's a concept that's been around for a long time in canon and wouldn't have much reason to change like technology or food.

[(Anonymous)]

There was no outcry among jewish communities when she implied that WWII and the holocaust were (in part) connected to Grindelwald.

A significant difference there is that Rowling didn't take something that Jewish tradition names as evil (e.g. Nazis) and say, "No, the bad guys are the ones who called Nazis evil in the first place." But that is what she did with Navajos and skinwalkers.