"Well, he's not wrong about that all being terrible."
Allows Quentin, making a face into the glass, and stepping away to go sit down cross legged on the floor, starting with all that splintered wood.
"But if magic and muggle live in full sight of one another, they historically end up vying for dominance. Wizards controlling the normal people, or regular citizens panicking so much about the freaks living among them, refusing to solve all the evils of the world with the wave of a wand- that they try anything to get power over them and end up committing atrocities- or wizards fighting back and controlling the freaked out regular citizens because they obviously can't be trusted and end up enslaving them and, wait for it, committing atrocities."
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Date: 2019-01-30 10:55 am (UTC)Allows Quentin, making a face into the glass, and stepping away to go sit down cross legged on the floor, starting with all that splintered wood.
"But if magic and muggle live in full sight of one another, they historically end up vying for dominance. Wizards controlling the normal people, or regular citizens panicking so much about the freaks living among them, refusing to solve all the evils of the world with the wave of a wand- that they try anything to get power over them and end up committing atrocities- or wizards fighting back and controlling the freaked out regular citizens because they obviously can't be trusted and end up enslaving them and, wait for it, committing atrocities."