[HPforGrownups] Re: Muggle questions

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 50659

In a message dated 25/01/2003 20:13:16 Eastern Standard Time, 
starropal at hotmail.com writes:


> >Debbie asks:
> >
> > > 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'm surprised that no one's already said this (at least not that I saw - 
> soooo many messages) but if that was true to everywhere than a lot of 
> things 
> would be different at the Dursley house wouldn't it? When Dobby, Harry, or 
> the Weasleys use magic there is no note made about how suddenly the house 
> is 
> plunged into darkness or how all the appliances burn out.
> 
> In P/SS:
> When Dumbledore apparates on Privet Drive (I'm assuming since he appears 
> "so 
> suddenly and silently you'd of thought he just popped out of the ground") 
> He 
> still needs to turn of the street lights - one by one in fact.
> 
> Also with all these shooting stars, Vernon is still able to work like 
> normal. No phone problems, no electricity problems. Its not on the news 
> about wide spread outages, ect.



I always understood that Electricity was somewhat of a muggle invention- 
Hagrid makes note of 'all the things muggles come up with' in PS when he 
takes Harry from the shack on the rock to London. It just always made sense 
to me that the WW doesn't need such trifles as electricty... 

Think about.. they can power just about anything with magic.

-Snuffles trying to really read all of the posts from the past two weeks now
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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