The wizards represent all that the true muggle most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
~ J. K. Rowling
- - - - -"Do you want to be a wizard when you grow up?" the old man asked the little boy.
The little boy was confused. He thought maybe the old man was confused. Wasn't a wizard something you were rather than something you became? Aren't wizards born and not made?
Then the boy realized what the man - who had been slurring his words because of all the alcohol - actually said was, "If you eat that lizard you'll throw up!"
He started to laugh but instead he pointed at a pretty flower and ran away when the old man looked at it.
Maybe the boy - who disappeared to safety and escaped the old man - was a wizard all along.
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