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24 Post author: Dorikka 09 September 2013 03:32AM

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Comment author: solipsist 09 September 2013 05:51:23PM *  15 points [-]

...that image doesn't have to be optimized for muggles...

Wizards who don't learn to interact profitably with muggles cut themselves off from most people in the world. Cutting yourself off from most people in the world is a life-altering mistake.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 September 2013 12:58:52PM *  3 points [-]

I am probably already cut off from most people in the world. A large fraction, possibly of a majority, of the world population can't speak any of the languages I can speak.

But I'm only ever going to interact with a tiny fraction of all the people in the world anyway, so that's not a big deal. And if I have to choose whether to have 150 wizard friends or 150 muggle friends, I'll surely pick the former.