Some time ago, in a lifetime far away, I was sitting at a hotel bar in Zurich watching the World Cup. The Brazilians were playing, and I was having one (or more) caipirinhas to cheer them on (or cheer me on ... the difference was lost on me at the time).
Given that I was traveling alone, I struck up a conversation with the bartender. She was not Swiss, but German. We talked about all sorts of things- the soccer, what it was like to live in America, how to correctly muddle the drinks. And then we were talking about Switzerland, and she went into talking about how hard it was for her- that even though she was German, the Swiss were so restrictive (and this was at the time, I don't know if it has changed at all) that she had to periodically leave the country and come back in. I was about to commiserate about the unfairness of it all with her, when she explained that in her opinion, this was the way to do it.... not like her country. Her country, she explained, just let anybody in. Then she explained that it's better to make the white people have to work a little harder and follow the rules than to let all "The Turks" in. ....and it went on from there.
I had not seen that coming.
So I excused myself as quickly as possible and found somewhere else to watch the game.
Anyway, it's weird how you think a person might be a certain way, and then out of the blue, BAM. Also? Haven't seen anything involved in Harry Potter in quite some time.