![]() ![]() (5) And then his skull explodes because he got sniped by an SAS sniper from 1200 yard away (4) “Sure, you destroyed my Horcruxes, but what chance do you think you have against me, I am the greatest wizard ever”, Voldy taunts (3) Leaving Harry and Voldy alone on the field (2) Harry and friends manage to destroy final Horcrux So, the way I would have bet good money the final confrontation would go was: So, we know that (a) Harry and co will be travelling around destroying horcruxes to make Voldy mortal, and (b) there is some contact between the wizarding world and the muggle world, and (c) Voldy and the Slytherins are incredibly contemptuous of muggles. ![]() (Also, figured I’d put in a plug for my theory as to how the book series was going to end, back before book 7 came out. (Any time a discussion like this comes up, I have to recommend that people read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is technically “fan fiction” but which stretches the general idea of what fan fic is far, far beyond the breaking point.) The more you think about it, the less sense it makes. If they exist, and just wander around (and grow) out in the wild, how did the muggle world not find them millenia ago? And what distinguishes a “magical” plant or animal from a normal one, anyhow? If muggles had never found the platypus, and if platypus venom (yes, they’re venomous) was a crucial ingredient to some potion, would they be thought of as “magical” by the wizarding world? Or maybe they ARE and SHOULD be but it was a mistake of containment that allowed muggles to find them at all? Etc. Dragons, unicorns, and then those crazy herbology plants. ![]() Why would they have locks if every member of their society can open them? And if they don’t have locks, why would they have spells to open locks? Also, think for a moment about the idea of “magical” plants and animals. As a very simple example, the wizards have a well known spell to open locks. There’s a lot that doesn’t really make sense about the relationship between the wizarding and mundane worlds. Or is it basically just like Men in Black where there is always a big enough spell to make the dumb muggles forget or ignore that a dragon just blew up Big Ben? Then again, couldn’t pretty much any wizard become wealthy if they wanted? What did they make their money in? I imagine one could be very successful on Wall Street or law or any number of other professions subtly applying magic. What does one do with a diploma from “Hogwarts”, a school that for all intents and purposes doesn’t exist in the Muggle world? Some families like the Malfoys are show to be extremely wealthy. They are just well hidden through charms, invisibility spells, force shields and whatnot.Īlso, what did these wizard folk do for work? I assume most of them didn’t work in the wizarding economy. They exist in physical locations, not some unreachable parallel dimension as I understand it. And not all of them are sympathetic (Like the Dursleys). That seems like a lot Darrin Stephens out there keeping that shit a secret. How “hidden” is the Wizarding world really? There are clearly enough “half-bloods” and “Muggle-born” wizards/witches that it’s considered a “thing”. So my main question is what happened after Voldermort’s forces started opening attacking the Muggle world (starting with collapsing London’s Millennial Bridge in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince? Did Muggles just assume that was just a freak natural phenomenon (in which case…what’s the point)? Did the British Armed Forces (and presumably their NATO allies) mobilize against this new strange threat, much in the same way they would against an alien or other supernatural invasion? The Wizarding population is a global minority, but not insignificant, as evident when they gather by the tens of thousands for their quidditch tournaments.īut the conceit appears to be that we dumb muggles have no idea that wizards, witches, and their various fantastic creatures actually exist. Wizard-folk still live in our world in our towns and cities, but also have their own towns, cities, infrastructure, etc that is both separate and intermingled with ours, but hidden. The film clearly portrays that there is the “Wizarding World” overlaid on top of our conventional “Muggle” world. I just rewatched the Harry Potter films and kind of have a question. ![]()
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