[HPforGrownups] Motorbike

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No: HPFGUIDX 181493


On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:12:26 -0000, "Barry" <whealthinc at ozemail.com.au>
said:
> In the chapter, The Seven Potters, it says: Hagrid kicked the
> motorbike into life:
> This, and other statements, indicate to me that the motorbike was
> starting like any motorbike does, i.e not with magic. Otherwise why
> kick start it? This, in turn, implies an electric circuit giving a
> spark to the combustion chamber. Yet electricity is not supposed to
> run in a magic environment.

Random832:
Electricity supposedly not working in a magic environment has never been
anything more but a device the author uses to keep hogwarts "different"
- i.e. to stop all the muggleborn students from bringing their portable
televisions and playstations and everything. I remain convinced that
there's nothing really to it - Hogwarts is simply isolated enough that
there are (or were, at the time it was first attempted) no radio signals
to receive, so the first time some muggleborn kid tried to bring his
transistor radio back in the 1930s, it didn't work, and he told all his
friends, and no-one's tried to knowingly bring anything electronic to
Hogwarts since then.
-- 
Random832