I think I broke Harry Potter
So itâs 3AM and Itâs just occurred to me that the most telling scene in the entire Harry Potter franchise is the scene following the announcement of the participants of the Triwizard tournament.
When Harryâs name is pulled out of the cup, literally one of the first things he is asked is âdid you ask an older boy to put your name in the cup for you?â or something to that effect, insinuating that, that was something nobody prepared for and that it was something that totally would have worked if anyone had been smart enough to figure it out.
However, in an earlier scene a student is turned into a hundred year old man when they try to artificially age themselves with a potion and put their name into the cup. Meaning someone trying to dangerously age themselves with potion they arenât familiar with was something the teachers genuinely considered to be more likely than someone asking for fucking help from another student.
In other words, the wizards in Harry Potterâs world are so reliant on magic that it doesnât occur to anyone save for people like Harry that asking for help is even an option in a given situation. This explains why wizards are so fucking ass-backwards at everything, theyâre so confident that their magic is capable of doing everything for them that it has never occurred to fucking anyone that perhaps asking for help from the muggle world might be of some use.
Think about it, the wizarding world hasnât changed in hundreds of years while in that same space of time the muggle world has figured out fucking space travel. I know itâs a clichĂŠ to say to say someone could have fucking shot Voldemort, but seriously, somebody totally fucking could have, he killed like 50 people, he was effectively a terrorist, if anyone in the wizarding world bothered to ask for help from the muggles instead of just telling them there was an invisible asshole flying around shooting death curses at everyone, they may have been able to help.Â
Pretty much the only reason Voldermort thinks heâs better than muggles is because heâs able to kill them with impunity using magic, something heâs only able to do so easily because muggles donât understand what magic is. Voldemort is basically like a fucking disease, heâs an invisible, lurking entity preying on mankind from the shadows like a cowardly piece of shit. You know what else did that? Smallpox and we stomped that to death the second we understood it. Thatâs the difference between muggles and wizards, when muggles donât understand something, they figure it out.
And hereâs the kicker, the only reason muggles donât understand magic at all is because the wizarding world deliberately withholds information about it. However, even if the wizarding world kept doing that, itâd only be a matter of time until a muggle figured out what magic was and how to stop or harness it because thatâs what humanity does, it pushes past what we think is impossible to see whatâs on the other side. We didnât understand the sun as a species originally and now we use it to power satellites and smartphones.
The wizarding world isnât a realm of infinite possibilities, itâs a universe of strict limitations where boundaries are never questioned. The muggle world is where the real magic happens. Thatâs why during the course of the Harry Potter books, which are set between 1991 and 1998, the muggle world (our world) discovered dark matter, cloned a sheep and invented fucking MP3s while the wizarding world were literally paying some dipshit to figure out what the purpose of a rubber duck was.
Wow, I really shouldnât think about this stuff when itâs like 3AM, it gets kind of dark.
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