Knight Bus and Electricity (Was: Muggle traditions at Hogwarts? (Was - Re:

[freddie mac]

No: HPFGUIDX 78884

Golly wrote:
>  
> > If you can find out a reason why they have a knight bus
> > but can't manage to get a Muggle grade 10 science 
> > textbook to learn about the muggle world and things 
> > like electricity</snip>

and Susan responded: 
<snip>They have the class called Muggle Studies.</snip>

And, here's another perspective: 
Why would they want electricity?  Electricity doesn't exist
in a vacuum; it has to be generated by machines, and
transmitted to the consumer. The WW would have to build
power plants, run power lines, etc. 
Most likely, they co-opt certain Muggle inventions that do
things better/faster/easier than magic can, but otherwise,
why would they *want* do do things the Muggle way? Note
that they have a bus, but still write with quills on
parchment.  IMHO, there's probably an obscure department in
MoM on translating Muggle inventions to the Wizarding
world.  
A good comparison of Muggle-WW relations is the Amish (a
religious sect in the US), who still get around by horse &
buggy, and tend their farms with animal-drawn equiptment. 
The Amish co-opt some "modern" tech, but they go through a
rather rigourous decision-making process.  


Freddie


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