Harry's watch

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52670

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "morgan_d_yyh
<morgan_d_yyh at y...>" <morgan_d_yyh at y...> wrote:
> 
> This is not my area of expertise, but as far as I know quartz watches 
> do require electricity to work. That's why most of them need 
> batteries. 
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> So it would still be something included in the list of instruments 
> that can't operate in Hogwarts.
> 
> Morgan D.
> Hogwarts Letters - http://www.hogwartsletters.hpg.com.br

bboy_mn:

While there is not way I can prove it, there are some people (myself
included) that believe the most primitive electrical gadgets WOULD
work at Hogwarts. A battery produce current heats a small wire and
produces light; straightr forward.

For example, a metal flashlight (torch to those in UK) would work is
is a simple primitive form of electricity, and shielded to some extent.

Conceivably a device as simple and as SMALL as a metal encased quartz
electric analog watch would work. It runs off a very small battery (a
metal battery), it uses only the tiniest trickle of electrical
current, the watch is encased in metal, and the quartz drive is very
very simple.

A digital watch because it needs electronic circuits to drive the
display and to keep track of the time would not work because the
electronic circuits would be saturated by the intense magical fields
in the area.

Again, no proof but it is not beyond reason for the most primitive
small electrical devices to work.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn