[HPforGrownups] Muggle devices at Hogwarts (WAS: Re: Wizard Photographs.. more thoughts on this =))

[ksnidget at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42524

Kristin writes:

>Another thing I'd like to know is gow come a muggle
>camera works within the Hogwarts grounds...because in
>GoF, as Hermione (and ANYONE who reaad Hogwarts, a
>Histroy...jeez!) keep telling Harry and Ron,
>electronic devices and such do not operate within
>Hogwarts grounds

There are cameras that are strictly mechanical.

No batteries or transistors to get fried by the magic field.

Now most recent camera's are electronic, but 
many of the older kind never were at all.  If the 
Creevey's were told that electronic devices don't
work they may have pulled out one of the old 
mechanical ones (that many people have 
stuffed in a box somewhere) out of the attic, or
bought one used.

Just because many things these days are electronic, that
doesn't mean that there were not mechanical-only versions
of them prior to the invention of the transistor.

Ksnidget <who knows someone who has a house
where the heating including the thermostat is all
mechanical.  Very strange walking into a blastingly
warm house on a street with no electricity after a
really nasty ice storm>