CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: Chapter One/MuggleWorld, Wizard World

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No: HPFGUIDX 82506

Kirstini wrote:
> For the suggestion "Wandless magic only works in the Muggle world" 
> to be true, the WW and MW would have to be composed of separate 
> spheres. 
<snip>
> 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. <snip> 
> 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, separated 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?


Now me (Gorda):

It was I who made the suggestion about why it is that Harry seems to be 
able to perform wandless magic only when surrounded by non-magical people 
and environment (sorry about that, should have made my post clearer).

In any case, I wasn't really thinking about it, it was just a throw-away 
sort of suggestion. But now that I've had a chance to think about it...

Hermione states in GoF that things such as electronics do not work within the 
Hogwarts grounds, because there's too much magic in the air. (Don't have 
exact page, sorry). So, let's imagine for a second that magic is a type of 
energy, say like an electromagnetic field. When a place is heavily enchanted 
(like Hogwarts) or when there's tons of magic people around (like at the 
Quidditch World Cup campsite, or at the graveyard with all the DEs), then the 
field is strong enough to make such Muggle things go haywire. It is also so 
strong, there's so much magic energy in the air, that the only way for wizards 
to do magic is to concentrate their personal magic energy through the use of a 
wand.
But in a place like Little Whinging, where Harry is the only magical person for 
miles (we are led to believe this from the hearing at the MoM in OoP), then his 
magic energy "expands" and he is able when under great stress to harness 
that energy and say, jump to the top of the kitchens when Dudley and gang 
are chasing him (PS/SS) or blow up his aunt, or whatever else.

What do you think? *jumps up and down eagerly*

Gorda