#muggle technology

[jasmin-97]

Harry teaches draco how to use muggle phones and then regrets it bc he wont stop texting&calling him, then gets upset when harry dosent answer immediately

[outsidetherain6070]

Fandom: Harry Potter Pairing: Severus Snape x Charity Burbage Rating: G Words: 1,866

Professional collaboration, Albus called it.  Research for a unit in the new Muggle Studies curriculum, he’d said.  She’s keen to see firsthand what Muggle courtship is like.  And no one else at Hogwarts is capable of navigating the Muggle world with more panache than yourself, Severus. What it actually was, Severus thought, was a humiliation ritual...

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Part of the Secrets in the Staffroom Flash Fest put on by the Snapeshifter's Guild Discord Server

[forharrywithlove]

The Lost Tapes from Godric's Hollow: Chapter 1

With seemingly endless time and nowhere to go, James and Lily Potter spend their days in hiding doing the only sensible thing: recording the messy, charming, and often mortifying story of how they fell in love. With only a Muggle tape recorder (and plenty of boredom to go around), they set out to tackle the impossible task of capturing their mess and magic on tape for their son—who is still years too young to understand it all...just in case.

Part love story. Part school mischief. Part recorded legacy for the boy they may never get to tell it to in person.

From James and Lily—for Harry, with love.

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James: She’s pretending not to be smiling again, Harry. Just thought you should know. 

Lily: You’re such a prat! (laughs) Mad to think I ever thought I detested you.

James: Mad to think I ever thought I could just be your mate.

Lily: We had a long road to figuring it all out. And Harry, dear, it was messy. But like your father astutely observed, it was perfect, in its own way.

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Read the full chapter, out now on FanFiction.net!!

J.K. Rowling owns it all—just borrowing the Potters to ruin my own day.

[hpseeker99]

Ginny, on the phone with Harry: Turn around Ginny: No the other way Ginny: No wait now the other way Ginny: Okay one more time Harry: OH MY GOD, WHERE ARE YOU?!?! Ginny: Oh I’m not there yet, but the thought of you aimlessly turning around in circles amuses me

[the-arrival-of-the-bee-box]

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Now you’re just doing this on purpose to get on Harrys nerves, don’t you Draco?

[beebox-illustrations]

Is it possible to see Draco trying to figure out phone apps or prank callers?

It begins! Thank you for the idea @sans-clone! It will be done and this is not only the beginning of Draco trying to figure out apps but from this moment on it will be the origin of why he tries to figure out muggle stuff at all 😂. This really inspired me

(Also sorry guys for not posting in so long but university is breaking down on me and I will be not as active as before for approx. two weeks? But there will be new stuff so stick with me 💕)

[kurokoisbae]

Stop Introducing Science to the Wizarding World

Science is detrimental to magic.

I've read a lot of fanfictions criticizing Hogwarts for not offering muggle subjects, but in my opinion, offering muggle subjects wouldn't really help much. The main subjects taught to kids are science, math, and language.

Witches and wizards could probably benefit from having a class that teaches them new vocabulary and sentence structures, but the amount of essays assigned to the students probably does a well enough job ensuring that the students at least know how to present information by the time they graduate, through sheer trial and error when the teacher returns the essays marked full of red due to grammatical errors, at least. They could offer Latin classes or something similar to help students understand the language they use in spellwork, but that's not really a class regularly offered to children and teenagers in the normal world so it can't really be called a 'muggle' class.

Mathematics is already offered, for those who wants to learn, in arithmancy. It's most likely a required OWL or NEWT for jobs that require a lot of calculations and the little math that is required in normal day to day life are already already taught to muggleborns in their primary classes, and to kids growing up in the magical world by their parents as part of their home schooling.

Science, I believe, is not only unnecessary but detrimental to the magical education process. Magic is something that has a lot to do with belief. Science imposes a lot of rules, laws, and principles that outlines what is possible, impossible, what's supposed to happen in a specific situation, etc. It is rigid. Magic defies the laws of reality. Teaching the students those laws would make them subconsciously believe in them, making them think that even with Magic, it is impossible. More over, they may even try to apply the laws of reality to Magic. I've read a few fanfictions where they applied chemistry to transfiguration. Where they must understand the chemical composition of both the object they are turning and the object they are turning it to. Eleven year olds were able to transfiguration a wooden match to a needle. Wood is an organic substance with carbon and hydrogen atoms while a needle is usually made of steel, which is an alloy of multiple metal atoms. Do you really think children know enough chemistry to be able to manipulate the protons, electrons, and neutrons withing an atom to turn carbon and hydrogen atoms to different metal atoms like iron and nickel? Of course not. But they were all able to do it as a first year, why? Because their teacher said they could and it's the first day of class, so many probably assumed that it's the simplest and easiest thing to do with magic. It's belief that makes it happen. Knowing the actual process that's happening would just overcomplicate things in their mind and make it difficult for them to visualize the bigger picture of what they want to happen. Instead of focusing on the match turning into a needle, they would instead think about the atoms turning into another atom and arranging those atoms so they form the desired shape. That may be somewhat doable with the match to needle transformation, but what about the later classes where they would be asked to change something made with different materials to another object also filled with different materials? Don't even get started with animate to inanimate transfiguration. How would you even explain cells turning into atoms? They don't have the same constituents of protons, electrons, and neutrons like changing between atoms do.

I really don't like that these fanfictions try to make the Wizarding world more like the muggle world. It's a different world with their own abilities. You can't expect them to do things like the muggles would. You can show them what the muggles do, and they can find inspiration to make a Wizarding version of it. Someone has probably already invented a spell that does the same thing a calculator would, a graphing calculator even, with the graph showing in 3D as a hologram. Some of the magical spells we see in the books are more advanced than even the present stage of technological advancement where AIs and robots are becoming more advanced. Especially household spells. They have a spells that makes the dishes wash themselves! A spell that makes a broom clean by itself! Those are imbueing objects with artificial intelligence all with one spell! The objects don't even have to be specially made to do these things, magicals can just buy a regular old broom from a store and wave a wand over it and boom! No more cleaning chores. Magical sensors are also way more advanced than technological sensors. They can detect intent, spells, forgotten thoughts (the remembrall), and likely more.

In conclusion, adding muggle subjects is not only redundant, but would hamper the progress of magical advancement. Similarly, converting muggle technology and following its progression instead of finding a way to make something like it with Magic would make innovating within the Wizarding world hard. Not to mention, while phones and computers are something that doesn't exist in that Wizarding world, the later technological advancements like AI and robots can already be done using spells, which everyone can do, so following the muggle technology progression can't really be sustainable for long anyway.

Besides, magicals have different needs than muggles. While the muggles' current primary focus is electricity and food, magicals power everything with magic, and while food can't be made out of thin air, it can be doubled from existing food. There's probably even magic that causes plants to grow quicker, and if there isn't, magicals don't have the same problem muggles do with space for their food crops. They can expand a space, plant a lot of crops, cast some spells that would provide all the nutrients and water needed for healthy plants, and they can have food right at their backyard. I've always thought magicals are very independent creatures. With the magic and classes taught at Hogwarts, they can conjure or transfigure everything they need, use charms to make their life easier, defend themselves with magic, brew their own medical potions, and grow their own crops with herbology.

What do we learn in school? How to do math we'll likely never use and science laws most don't even care about.

[copper-dust]

What kind of Muggle technology would the wizarding world use in 2022?

The following Muggle technologies are the most advanced technologies mentioned in canon:

cars (although adapted with magic)

radios

escalators and elevators

indoor plumbing

radio (but not telephones!)

cameras

I've heard people mention zippers, but I can't remember where in the text a wizarding-made garment is mentioned that explicitly features a zipper.

The latest of the inventions, excluding the zipper, are the escalator and radio, circa 1890s. The basic concept of the zipper was first created in the 1850s, but zippers were not fully developed or commercially available until roughly the 1910s. In the absence of canon evidence for wizarding zippers, I'm going to exclude zippers from the conversation and suppose that the latest Muggle technologies to be integrated into the wizarding world originate around 100 years prior to canon, in the 1890s.

Following this logic, wizards living in 2022 would, by now, have also integrated Muggle technologies from the 1900s to the 1920s, which might include:

frozen foods

vacuum cleaners (though probably unnecessary in a magical context)

the assembly line or industrial production of goods (also likely unnecessary)

washing machines

film

dishwashers

refrigerators

toaster

electric irons

I believe this would make Arthur Weasley very pleased. However, we are unlikely to see the wizarding cellphone or wizarding Google until the 2090s.