10/4/2023 0 Comments Muggle with gun vs wizard![]() Throwing in the military of the rest of the world only guarantees the demise of the Wizard world. In short, the U.S Army stomps in a direct confrontation. The Harry Potter Wizard world a year or so back with some chaps. ![]() Hilariously enough, I had a chat about the U.S Army VS. I sincerely doubt many of them are going to have working knowledge of what a nuke does before they get bodied by it. Heck, Weasley's dad, the appointed expert on Muggles, is captivated by basic late 19th and early 20th century electrical wires, and IIRC a lot of Hogwarts wizards who grew up in the wizard world don't even know how to use a freaking subway train. This is ignoring the fact that the Wizard World's understanding of Muggle technology is. Most nukes and high-grade military bombs are detonated from hundreds of feet in the air to maximize their area of effect. No magic spell in the Harry Potter universe has shown a range greater than a couple dozen feet. I can get why a wizard who grew up in the wizarding world and no access to or understanding of muggle stuff wouldn't think of taking advantage of muggle technology, but you even have characters like Harry and Hermione who grew up in the muggle world, but still don't even consider combining wizardry with muggle technology. Yeah, sure, those things are magical and wondrous, but a phone call is just far more convenient. To communicate long distances, they used shit like owls and fireplace faces. I don't remember a single witch or wizard using a telephone in the books or movies. I mean, outside of the story, I understand that it's because Rowling wanted the wizarding world to feel more crazy and magical, and having it completely removed from real world technology accomplishes that.īut within the story, wizards just come off as goddamn idiots for not embracing technological marvels like computers and the internet. They’ll be looking for different things and interpreting what they find in totally different ways.I don't understand why no wizard has embraced both the muggle and magical worlds and taken the best of both. What they discover and what they create from that research will be as non-Muggle as can be, of course. So, if wizards need to know about some field that we would think of as science-genetics for example-they are likely to be researching it. They just research different stuff than Muggles do because they have different needs, just like the Mayans stopped researching the wheel because they lived in a mountainous region at the same time Europeans were developing wheeled vehicles. That’s why they need publications like Transfiguration Today. Many cultures independently invented the wheel, for example, and many of them rejected it because their geographic conditions made it unsuitable for use in a transportation device. Different technologies develop for different reasons at different times. I have studied the history and development of technology and many of the devices we use have as much to do with cultural preferences and historical accidents as anything else. They are simply different types of technologies, and one is not necessarily superior to the other. And several people have noticed the similarities between the kind of logic that goes into creating a magical item such as the Marauder’s Map and the kind of logic that goes into writing a computer program. The history of the broomstick, as explained in QA, makes this clear. They are constantly improving and refining magical objects. Wizards have their own sort of technologies. Why mine coal, build power plants and power lines and thousands of devices, create vast amounts of pollution, and endanger the future of the planet through global warming, if you can light hundreds of candles with a flick of the wrist? This is one of the most significant differences between Muggles and wizards. And modern Muggle technology is largely based on the availability of cheap, efficient energy sources, especially electricity.īut wizards can create their own energy. Modern Muggle technology, according to wizards, is a poor substitute for magic. Wizards don’t use electricity for a very good reason-they don’t need it, in fact they don’t need our technology at all (except maybe for sherbet lemons).
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