Science of Magic (was Re: The Statute of Secrecy_

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 159223

 Steve said: 
> So, who is to say that magic doesn't draw its energy from
> the huge massive amount to Dark Energy that permeates the
> universe? They are tapping a source of energy that is all
> around us, yet is something that we are only vaguely
> aware of in the scientific sense.
> 
> So, while I can speculate perfectly logical reasons why
> magic could exist and why its knowledge would be 
> infinitely valuable to modern science, I really fear the
> social and psychologial aspects of it. I still claim that
> those with financial, political, military, religious, and
> moral power and wealth would fight to control or attempt
> to destroy magic if it were discovered in our modern 
> world. 
(Snip)
> 
> Chaos I tell you, chaos; social upheaval and riots in the
> streets. I know it is a sad thought, a sad commentary on 
> human existance, and hopelessly pessimistic, but I think
> to deny it is naive.


Tonks:
I agree with Steve. Muggles can not know of the WW, for the safety 
of both worlds.

Wizards draw their power from the power of the universe and from 
their own inner energy.

As many of you know I have been studying Alchemy. At first when Hans 
said that the HP books were about Alchemy I thought he was a nut 
case, now I am beginning to think that he may be right. And as I 
explore this more and more, I see that Alchemy also explains things 
about energy. It especially explains about the energy of prayer (or 
the human mind and its ability to effect the material world) from a 
more `scientific' view. When I read about that my first reaction 
was "WOW!!", and my second was "I can not tell anyone about this". I 
understand why the WW keeps it's secrets just as the Alchemist kept 
theirs.  What a very dangerous place the MW or RW would be, even 
more than it already is, if the secrets of the wizards were known to 
be true.  So for all of you Muggles reading this, Alchemy is just an 
old science where some misguided fools thought that they could turn 
lead into gold, just like you have always been told in your Muggle 
schools. It is all fiction.  

Tonks_op
winking at all the other wizards here.