You make good points, I'm just... not completely sold? Like "witches and wizards are not at all afraid of humans or particularly worried about the wizarding world being revealed to humans" turning into "wizards are terrified of discovery and think there might literally be a war with humans" is a pretty serious 180 for the film to spend so little time fleshing it out.
Like, if the explanation had actually been that some witches and a lot of humans died in Salem and in Native American populations, and that anti-witch sentiment was more of a problem in America than in Britain, so they just preferred to live separately, I would have absolutely been on board. But they seemed to be going for something a lot more serious, and it just doesn't feel right to me compared to the previous canon.
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Like, if the explanation had actually been that some witches and a lot of humans died in Salem and in Native American populations, and that anti-witch sentiment was more of a problem in America than in Britain, so they just preferred to live separately, I would have absolutely been on board. But they seemed to be going for something a lot more serious, and it just doesn't feel right to me compared to the previous canon.
I like the Honeydukes idea, that's cute <3