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Look, I made a gif of this most awesome wizard at the Leaky Cauldron!

DUDE IS READING ‘A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME’ BY STEPHEN HAWKING

I NEVER REALIZED

are you serious

I always assumed wizards just ignored science, because the fact that “magic” exists, can explain anything. But there are MuggleBorn wizards, ones who, until they were eleven, lived in the real world and learned science and things. Did they all just abandon that normal, muggle knowledge, like Harry did? It’s always been there, itching in the back of my mind.

FOUR FOR YOU SCIENCE WIZARD

YOU GO SCIENCE WIZARD

can we point out that he’s doing wandless magic too

like voldemort couldnt even do that shit

molly fuckin weasley couldnt fuckin do that

who are you

It might — might — be a self-stirring spoon that’s Charmed to be that way and the stirring motion is what makes it work.  But I am still fascinated by Science Wizard and wish to give him all the candy canes.

What is the advantage of a self-stirring spoon that requires one to make a circular motion with one’s hand at close range to operate, though? That’s… that’s how you stir with a regular spoon. The only possible point is to drive home the fact that you could be stirring with your hand, but you’re doing so with magic. It’s so gratuitous it feels like an affectation, which makes me feel like the book is also an affectation. This, to me, is the douchiest wizard in the cauldron.

ok, this always bugged me.

Are there wizard schools for the pre-Hogwarts, non-Muggle-born set where they learn like, reading and writing and even the bare minimum of math that you need to use irl, like multiplication, geometry, etc.? Are they home-schooled?

They sure as hell don’t have time to study calculus or how to write an advanced expository essay as subjects in their own right, because they are too busy studying Transfiguration and Potions and stuff, but they come to Hogwarts at 11 and have to at least squeeze out something coherent for their written assignments. And read.

Anyway, when they graduate Hogwarts, in some ways they have the education level of a Muggle 10-year-old.

What I want to know is how do they not know what a plumber is when they clearly have plumbing? Not just magic water-producing basins or self-evaporating sanitary pots, they have sinks and toilets with taps and u-bends. Does a sanitor from the ministry come out and point a wand at the wall and say “EXPECTO PLUMBUM”?

Plumbing is actually a fairly old technology so I wouldn’t think anything of wizards having it, except it actually comes up that Arthur Weasley thinks of it as a muggle thing and doesn’t know exactly what it is.

The logistics of the magic/muggle divide is an area where the books aren’t very coherent at all.

“Expecto Plumbum!”

this is why ilu. 

Also there’s tons more wandless magic in the movies, especially the third one, it just looks cool. Even the guy wiping the tables down is magically causing empty glasses to dissapear without waving his wand and saying some ‘teleport this thing to the dishrack’ spell.

The main reason the magic is inconsistent is because JK didn’t come at the series from a worldbuilding point of view, she just started with the stock British boarding-school characters + magic idea and went for it. Every single character is a well trodden, stock character from that genre, so I think the fairly fuzzy rules of the magic were bent in various ways in order to serve the characters.