A Teaser of Sorts...

[Black Aeronaut]

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Sounds like you have a better idea for a story than I ever had!

Aw shucks, Bob.  Just trying to help is all.  ^_^;;

Really, I've been on a bit of a streak for doing crash-plots like this.  Mostly for Neon Genesis Evangelion, though.

Ask me about the plot bunnies I've been churning out for Neon Genesis Evangelion - I got The Black Moon in Germany scenario and the Big Sister Maya Ibuki scenario.

DHBirr wrote:

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Black Aeronaut wrote:

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As an American Wizard [Tabitha's husband] would have been a lot less insular and have a much better perspective on non-magicals.  

This is contradicted by a Pottermore article from March '16:  

Rappaport’s Law further entrenched the major cultural difference between the American wizarding community and that of Europe. In the Old World, there had always been a degree of covert cooperation and communication between No-Maj governments and their magical counterparts. In America, MACUSA acted totally independently of the No-Maj government. In Europe, witches and wizards married and were friends with No-Majs; in America, No-Majs were increasingly regarded as the enemy. In short, Rappaport’s Law drove the American wizarding community, already dealing with an unusually suspicious No-Maj population, still deeper underground.

In June, Pottermore mentioned that Rappaport's Law had been repealed in 1965.  However, in 1995, there'd still be plenty of American wizards who grew up under a law of strict apartheid, and even those born afterward would likely pick up on some of its ways of thinking.  I considered at the time pointing this out to Bob in light of the thoughts he gave Umbridge about the egalitarianism of Americans, since the Pottermore article seemed to indicate that the American attitude would actually have been more in line with her own.  "She'd say one thing for those snotty Americans, they had the right ideas with regard to Muggles, or at least had until '65."  I decided not to suggest such an extreme revision.

Note, though, that the Pottermore article on the American wizarding school Ilvermorny to some degree contradicts this tale of hostility and separatism:  the school was co-founded by a No-Maj, who remains held in high honor three centuries later, his statue still standing beside his witch wife's at the entrance.

Eh.  Rowling's stuff is, as ever, full of plot holes.  As much as I like Harry Potter, I must respectfully say Fuck That Noise.  America was far too dynamic of a place for secrecy of that level to fly, especially in the face of WWI, WWII, and the Cold War.

I mean, 1965, right?  The year after the Civil Rights Act, right?  Oh no coincidence there.  Nuh-uh.  None at all!