CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: Chapter One/MuggleWorld, Wizard World

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 82437

Some rather sleepy musings from me, I'm afraid.

Pip wrote:
>>Harry tends to do magic without trying and without a wand when he 
is under great stress, like here (Uncle Vernon was choking him) and 
later with the Lumos (when he was facing the dementors). 
Conveniently, we have seen none of this wandless magic in other 
sticky situations, notable the encounters with LV ( sure could have 
used it while tied to that gravestone). Maybe wandless magic only 
works in the Muggle world?>> 

Now, this got me thinking. For the suggestion "Wandless magic only 
works in the Muggle world" to be true, the WW and MW would have to be 
composed of seperate spheres. Previously, I had always imagined that 
certain areas of the WW - 9 3/4, Diagon Alley - to be like small 
pockets - like air pockets under the sea. But while much of the WW's 
problems with Muggles comes from their having to share the same 
physical space, these small pockets succumb to different laws of 
spatial dimension than the rest of the (Muggle) world. "Yeah, that's 
cos they're *magic*" I hear you snort. But bear with me while I 
potter through this one. As Pip pointed out, magic itself seems to be 
filtered differently in different areas. Now "magic", as an abstract 
entity, could not possibly "know" whether or not it was in WW-
designated space or not, yet Harry never manages wandless magic in 
his own defence in the WW. People, and magical loopholes, tend to 
come to his aid. It could be argued here that the GoF graveyard *was* 
Muggle territory - ultra-Muggle Tom Riddle snr was buried there. 
However, Voldemort must have made it in some way unplottable to 
ensure his birthing party proceeded undisturbed. It was certainly 
wizard-occupied territory. Do unplottable territories have some sort 
of rarified air which alters conditions within them? Does the area 
that is the WW (a phrase which we tend to use to mean only those 
spaces occupied by people and institutions - physical, figurative)
occupy a moveable, yet specific, geographic/environmental space, 
seperated almost entirely from that of the MW? Is it like a series of 
small air pockets, or are the gateways - the shop window, the brick 
wall, the barrier - actually portals to another dimension? I think 
it's fairly obvious that the WW does not have another,secondary 
Britain existing just underneath the Muggle one and spanning the 
whole country. However, either wizards themselves or a highly 
concentrated wizarding presence has the ability to change the 
properties of an area, it seems. Together, or in essence divided?

Kirstini, arch Crypto-bore.