What is magic?

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No: HPFGUIDX 42527

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> wrote:
> So-- what do we see of magic in Potterverse?
> 
> 1) Some can do it and some can not.
> 2) When it's strong, electric devices stop working.
> 
> This effect against electricity is perhaps the most nominating.
> 
> Anyway- magic in Potterverse - how about it being a force like 
> magnetism - except that it works on non-magnetic things like coal 
> (which is an odd element: leads electricity but isn't magnetic?) or 
> perhaps some sort of anti-electricity. Flow of positrons, perhaps...
> 
> Well, that's how I picture it, anyway...
> 
> -- Finwitch

Just my opinion, but I think basic electricity probably works. I think
a flash light (torch to the British) would work; batteries and a
filament bulb. But it's possible that electic light would not work
because it's a little more complicated and requires more than the
simple flow of electricity; transformers, generators, regulators, etc...

Anything beyong basic straight forward electricity, would be so
saturated with energy, that it could not perform the more complex
functions of electronics. It is possible for standard electronics to
be saturated by a simple electrical field or EMF field. Example,
static on your radio or TV during a lightning/thunder storm. So any
strong force of energy would disrupt the intelligent or structure flow
of electrons.

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