Electronics at Hogwarts

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 158514

Anent the car, how much of its inner workings (as opposed to the outer controls
and appearance) was still the original Muggle car that Arthur acquired?  It may
be that all of the internal workings were magically powered--after all, there is
no mention of stopping for 'petrol' (and how would they have bought any; it
isn't as though they carry Muggle money, much less a credit card, around!)

Hogwarts' express looks like a steam locomotive, but I hardly think that the
'fireman' was really shoving coal into the firebox.  Similarly, Slughorn's
record player may have looked like a gramophone and the Weasley's wireless set
may have looked like a radio, but I hardly think that the really played through
friction on the disk by the needle or the other by vacuum tubes.  These and
other post-Seclusion machines would have been things that the WW learned of
through halfbloods and muggleborns and reverse-engineered to do what the muggle
contraptions did, and to look like they did (for the benefit of any stray
muggles that might see them, or the comfort of muggleborns/halfbreeds), but not
WORK like they did.


BAW