Muggle things in Hogwarts

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 9113

Fefe wrote:
"Hi all !"

--Hallo!

Hermione wrote:
"All those substitutes for magic Muggles use - electricity, 
computers, and radar, and all those things - they all go haywire 
around Hogwarts, there's too much magic in the air.  No, Rita's using 
magic to eavesdrop, she must be."

"The other one was Colin Creevey's camera, also in CoS: 
"He was clutching what looked like an ordinary Muggle camera, and the 
moment Harry looked at him, he went bright red."
(I think this means that it WAS a Muggle camera.)
Maybe J.K. forgot about this when she wrote GoF, but Colin could have 
also used a fully mechanical camera... I think that fully mechanical 
Muggle machines don't go wrong in Hogwarts, because i can't imagine 
any reason for them to do so. "

--I think that you must be right, despite Hermione's comments.  What 
I mean is that Colin certainly implies he's using a muggle camera, 
and that it is only the potion that the pictures are developed in 
that makes them move.  I had just assumed that the camera had a 
magical element but then perhaps not. Any explanations?

(CoS p. 96 American Edition)


"Btw Harry's watch was surely a magical one, but then, why did it go 
wrong underwater ? Oh yes, it could also have been a fully mechanical 
Muggle watch, although i can't imagine the Dursleys buying him such  
an expensive thing :)"

I know that Harry mentions how his watch is broken at another time 
than the second task, but that might be after it and so the watch is 
broken. I can't remember.  Anyway it seems that this is a regular 
muggle thing as we never saw Harry buy a watch in Diagon Alley though 
that surely doesn't mean he didn't. 

Gosh but I'm don't think that I'm making sense tonight.

Scott