computers, logic and complex magic

[Joanne0012 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 29583

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., frantyck at y... wrote:
> But that's just it: wizards *cannot* lack practical logic, because of 
> the nature of the complex magic they must do. Gringotts spells must 
> be like complex security systems in the Muggle world, they need to be 
> as failproof and carefully engineered as anything else... and 
> Gringotts does hire wizards, since we know Bill Weasley works for the 
> bank as a curse breaker.

We have no idea how old the wizard spells, charms, etc. are, nor how they 
were developed.  I wonder, though, whether something was lost when the 
wizarding world went underground -- the scientific, practical, logical 
tradition might have been lost in the process, leaving them with an ossified 
culture that has trouble growing and evolving.  Sometimes they remind me of 
Mary Norton's "Borrowers," on the outside of English culture, looking in.