How Many Wizards Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

[Kat Macfarlane]

No: HPFGUIDX 135473

Gatta:

Browsing through PS/SS (hb U.S. ed.) for references to wizardly attire, I became intrigued with the WW's interface with Muggle technology. Apparently the WW quite comfortably uses or adapts anything that is not motorized, electrical, or electronic, assuming they don't already have something equivalent already in place. For example:

* Oliver uses "ordinary golf balls" to train Harry at Quidditch (p. 170).

* The loos at Hogwarts are apparently just that (pp. 175-177). (Though I admit I expected a flood to ensue when the troll knocked the sinks off the wall; magical automatic shut-off valves?)*

* Hagrid and many of the students bring binoculars to the Quidditch match (p. 184 ff.).

* The Weasley twins wear gold wristwatches (p. 187).

I won't meet the Weasley car until CoS, but as I recall it began life as an ordinary Ford Anglia, to which Arthur Weasley made magical "improvements".

*FOOTNOTE: Assuming the plumbing at Hogwarts is Muggle standard, what do they do when something goes wrong? Summon Pluggage & Drip, Ltd. in the next Muggle village down the line to rectify matters? (Admittedly, Moaning Myrtle is a special case, but every so often a student may drop something down the toilet or a faucet may develop a drip.) And how do they get in touch with P&D? Is there a telephone stashed away in the back pantry, or are P&D comfortable with receiving owls?

More later! ;)


Gatta.