Motorbike

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 181499

---  "Barry" <whealthinc at ...> wrote:
>
> In the chapter, The Seven Potters, it says: Hagrid kicked 
> the motorbike into life:
> ... 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. 
> 
> ...
> 
> These are minor quibbles. But I tend to think that JKR would
> have had a more accurate world and a richer one if she set HP
> in Dickens era.
> 
> Barry
>

bboyminn:

The problem is,you have taken a 'specific' and made it a 
'general'. Hogwarts, specifically, has a problem with 
electricity, because of the many protective enchantments,
and the volatile hormonal overly-excitable magical students 
all being there. In high concentrations of magic, electricity
and electronics are affected, but to varying degrees
depending on the nature and intensity of the magic.

I suspect a cell phone would function at it's basic level
in Diagon Alley, but the reception would be the worst. At
Hogwarts, that same cell phone wouldn't work at all. It 
is a matter of degrees.

So, there is no evidence in any of the books or interviews
that indicate any magic, no matter how small, will cancel
all electricity and electronics in the area. Magic will 
interfere with electricity to some extent, but not always
enough to cancel it out, unless the concentration is high
enough.

Steve/bboyminn