Is There Alternating Current in Harry's World?

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No: HPFGUIDX 184193

> Justcorbly says:
> 
> Doesn't Molly say, somewhere, that she can move the food around by 
magic but that it 
> needs to be cooked as per usual.  Does anyone recall an instance in 
which someone 
> pointed a finger and zapped up a cup of tea, rather than putting 
the pot on?

Sarah:
Finger?  You mean a wand, right?

HBP:
"Oh yes, she arrived the day before yesterday," said Mrs. Weasley, 
rapping a large iron pot with her wand. It bounced onto the stove 
with a loud clang and began to bubble at once. "Everyone's in bed, of 
course, we didn't expect you for hours. Here you are —"

She tapped the pot again; it rose into the air, flew toward Harry, 
and tipped over; Mrs. Weasley slid a bowl nearly beneath it just in 
lime to catch the stream of thick, steaming onion soup.

Sarah:
The soup was already made before, but it seems only magic is needed 
to apply heat to it.  Mine never bubbled at once, anyway.

GOF:
"It's not as though they haven't got brains, she continued irritably, 
taking the saucepan over to the stove and lighting it with a further 
poke of her wand, "but they're wasting them, and unless they pull 
themselves together soon, they'll be in real trouble.  I've had more 
owls from Hogwarts about them than the rest put together.  If they 
carry on the way they're going, they'll end up in front of the 
Improper Use of Magic Office."

Mrs. Weasley jabbed her wand at the cutlery drawer, which shot open.  
Harry and Ron both jumped out of the way as several knives soared out 
of it, flew across the kitchen, and began chopping the potatoes, 
which had just been tipped back into the sink by the dustpan.

Sarah:
She uses a stove here too, but lights it magically.  And no need for 
a Cuisinart.

I don't know if you consider this cooking, but...

POA:
Lupin tapped the kettle with his wand and a blast of steam issued
suddenly from the spout.

Sarah:
Then in OOTP, Molly uses a cauldron over a fire, which she seems less 
at ease with than the stove.  But Grimmauld Place probably doesn't 
come equipped with one since it's always had elves.  But she probably 
lit the fire with her wand, given that Arthur had no idea how to use 
a match in GOF.
 
> Justcorbly says:
> 
> Can magic cure a grave illness like cancer?  Dumbledore did not 
cure himself. And, what 
> happens if one of them is out and about in a city and is hit by a 
bus, seriously injured, and 
> rendered unconscious?  Off to a hospital, of course, where the 
staff would immediately 
> look for something to identify next of kin and other contacts.  
Maybe they all carry false 
> ID's.

Sarah:
Dumbledore didn't cure himself, because he didn't have a mundane 
illness.  They can mend broken bones in an instant.  Cancer might 
take Poppy, I don't know, a week?

I don't think wizards die from bus accidents too often, since it's 
allegedly so outrageous that Lily and James Potter died in a car 
crash.

There are all kinds of wizards walking around maimed, with Dragon 
Pox, etc, but I don't think any of these are mundane illnesses/
injuries.

The only thing I can think of that seems to be even less treatable in 
the WW than it is in the MW, is bad eyesight.  Unless someone got 
their eyes poked out and replaced with magical ones, that seems to 
work.  The rest of them just wear glasses.

Sarah