Use of muggle objects in the whole series

[Kelly]

Occasionaly you see something muggle related in the books like the oil lantern in the sorcerers stone and rita skeeter's enchanted camera, and all the furniture in hogwarts (fireplaces, desks, sinks, glass windows, Plumbing?!(COS)) Do wizards use muggle objects? did muggles take the idea from wizards? do wizards model things aftr muggle items?

[Radhika]

i am sure basic human necessities are dealt with similarly by muggles and wizards alike.

[Kelly]

Yes, but some of thoses things aren't nessesity like the enchanted cameras

[Grace]

i think that people alike would all have the same needs therefore if u see a good idea may as well take it. so i think that somethings are made b muggles originaly and some by wizards and they would share the ideas and help eachother out. that ofcourse would be before they muggle and wizarding worlds where seperated.

[Jacki]

kelly. I Like the books but jeeez it is FICTION!!!! there is no wizards or muggles. the only type of magic peeps r phycic mediums like derek Acorah or Colin Fry

[Grace]

yah but it is fun to think about these things

[Kelly]

and to discuss it like it's real. you are obviosly not that big of a fan and there are some things people would like to know or understand about the books

[Grace]

exactly! if u are not a fan just dont disscuse things.

[Chicklet]

Here's my take on things.
Have you noticed how the things wizards use are way behind modern technology? Like lanterns instead of flashlights. Muggles and wizards both used the same inventions until the time when they are separated. Which explains why the things they use are older.
As for the more modern things, there are some wizards that enchant muggle objects even though it's against the rules, like Mr. Weasley. Also, some things must have been copied from muggles, like the camera. It seems to me that wizards separated from muggles before the invention of the camera. I have a hunch that muggle-borns are the likeliest to have done such things due to their link to the muggle world.

[Kelly]

that makes sense

[Tracey]

i got a bit of a kick out of Mr. Weasley's fascination with Muggle objects throughout the series.

[Grace]

that is a good explaination. and i liked the way that he liked muggle things and just loved the whole muggle world

[Tanvi]

OK. As we all know that the series is based sometime in the 90s and even going by the logic that wizards only use objects that they knew of before the separation, why aren't things like the computer, or even television described as known to wizards?
Of course muggles use them, but and if muggle borns know about them, why don't wizards? Or are they too insignificant...?

[Ciara]

Well, every-one needs windows, right? And I'm sure theres an amazing explanation, otherwise theres none at all. Its simple...wizards and muggles have different ways of using the objects.
Arthur Weasley has an obsession with Muggle transport, the telephone, things wizards don't use, what with Apparation and the likes, and of course, they can communicate using magic, which means not everything is the same.
The essentials are used by both wizards and muggles, and maybe the wizards think they created an object, when the muggles think THEY created the object? Maybe thats how they avoided confusion, assuming muggles/wizards created it, and the other just copied? I don't know, but thats the best I can think of!

[Louise]

Haha it always irritated me how they didn't have mobile phones, I think that they would be very useful for wizards, they don't really have any equivalent!

[mmstanley75]

Louise wrote: "Haha it always irritated me how they didn't have mobile phones, I think that they would be very useful for wizards, they don't really have any equivalent!"

The books were written before cell phones were as widely used.

[Kminni]

They did have mobile phones it's called floo powder. lol

[Louise]

mmstanley75 wrote: "Louise wrote: "Haha it always irritated me how they didn't have mobile phones, I think that they would be very useful for wizards, they don't really have any equivalent!"

The books were written ..."

Yes that is a good point! And to Kminni - You can't use floo powder without a fireplace though! Not so mobile :P

[Dhvani]

yeah, the books were written before cell phones but couldn't they just use telephones? I used to laugh when the mail came to hogwarts by owls because i was like, "HAH, we muggles have phones, and trust me its waaaay faster"
but i guess it would kind of ruin the magical feeling of the series ;)
its just funny how they could Apparate someplace but it takes like a week to get a message to someone xD

[[deleted user]]

Reckon it's a bit of both. Muggles copied wizards, wizards copied Muggles. It's just that one knows the other did it and the other is nonethewiser.

[[deleted user]]

What is the function of a rubber duck??? hahahha

[Brittany]

Wizards use old fashioned technology because electricity and other modern inventions, can't handle the magic. In the fourth book, Hermione explained this after Harry suggested using scuba equipment in the second task. So wizards have to use more "stone age" technology for the necessities

[Rachel]

Wizards were at one point part of the normal world. I'm sure they used furniture and muggle objects before they went into hiding and continued using them afterwards.

[Anna]

One word: bathrooms. Technically Muggle "technology".

[Sara]

Brittany wrote: "Wizards use old fashioned technology because electricity and other modern inventions, can't handle the magic. In the fourth book, Hermione explained this after Harry suggested using scuba equipment..."
That's what I was going to say. Maybe magic doesn't react well with computers and cell phones and stuff like that.

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