[HPforGrownups] Electricity

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 50613

>   Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 02:47:18 -0000
>   From: "Debbie <debmclain at yahoo.com>" <debmclain at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: Muggle Questions  Was: McGonagall the snoop
>
>Now an ignorant question...Hermione mentions that magic and
>electricity don't work together. I'm assuming she means just at
>Hogwarts, right? Otherwise, wouldn't muggles find it weird that some
>neighbors only use candles?

I don't think that the muggles would worry too much about their neighbours
first of all because a wizard family would have magical sources of
illumination rather than candles - and if you see a lighted window in your
neighbour's house, how closely would you look to check that it's coming from
an electric light - especially if the curtains are drawn!

Secondly I think that a wizard's house would have some sort of
"Don't-Notice-Me" spell on it so that the neighbours' attention would just
slide over how it was lit without it registering.

But the electricity one is a bit more difficult. There are going to be a lot
of families, for example, where one of the couple is a wizard, and therefore
using spells all the time, and the other is a muggle, and therefore using
"technology" all the time - how can they exist under the same  roof if every
time the wizard uses a spell, it blows out all the electrics!

Similarly, there are places like the Leaky Cauldron and Kings Cross station
where there are boundaries between the two worlds. There's no suggestion in
the books that every time someone does a spell in the Cauldron that all the
traffic in the street outside suddenly suffers electrical failure...

Cheers

Ffred

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