the WW's creativity

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 142809

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darqali" <darqali at y...> wrote:
 No, I stick by my 
> origional thought:  Wizards are behind our modern plumbing; and 
> *theirs* works better than *ours*; and perhaps the person who 
brought 
> the idea back to the Muggle world was a squib, or the Muggle 
partner 
> of a Wizard ....for that matter, seeing that about half the WW 
> selects Muggle partners when they marry; and given that the WW 
> produces the occasional Squib as well, why assume *any* given 
> technology or innovation {like, the musical forms discussed} are 
> purely Muggle in origin?  The Wierd Sisters sound to me like  they 
> would fit in with many modern groups .... which came first?  Muggle 
> groups with their music innovation, or Wizard groups?  Sure, we 
have 
> Muggle radio .... who is to say Wizarding Wireless doesn't 
*predate* 
> it?  With some enterprizing Squib adding *ekletricity* to make the 
> concept work for Muggles?  and so on ....
> 

except there is no such thing as Wizards :)  Sorry, there are tons of 
ancient ruins in Britian and Europe from the old Roman Empire - if 
Wizards are so advanced with plumbing, why are they so woefully out 
of touch with the concept of iPods or its forefather, the Walkman?  
Or that they still use candles and torches instead of electricity?

colebiancardi