Electricity and Wizard's Kitchens.

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50710

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Megalynn S." wrote:

> My one question about the wizarding world and electricity 
> is if wizards REALLY don't use it (as suggested by Arthur's 
> mispronunciation etc.) why is it called the Wizard's WIRELESS 
> Network? Wireless? They don't use wires so of course it's wireless.
> Why worth mentioning?

To me, that is evidence that wizards copy Muggle technology. The 
Muggle version is called "wireless" because it came after the "wire" 
(the Telegraph, recently explained in a book titled THE VICTORIAN 
INTERNET). The Wizarding version is called "wireless" because it is 
imitating the Muggle version.

(I have speculated that the wizarding folk made an imitation 
Telegraph named Spellograph.)

This is important to me because .. well, because of Muggle Pride .. 
the wizarding folk claim that Muggles use technology to imitate what 
wizards do by magic: Hermione specifically says so somewhere in 
canon. I accept that that was true for a couple thousand years, but 
at some point, the Muggle technology got ahead of the wizards and 
invented things from scratch and THEY imitated US. I said that was 
with the taming of electricity and some one corrected me that it was 
earlier.