Primarily automobiles. Would they work in Hogsmeade? Or would the area be too saturated with magic for them to function?

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   Millie Potts

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There are no roads into Hogsmeade and so no way to get one there.

  

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This makes sense, thank you.

  

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There are no roads into Hogsmeade and so no way to get one there.

Could one shrink and make big? For ease of getting their new toy into town? Or get delivered in some excessive way because only the #rich can afford cars back then anyway?

EDIT: Elaine just reminded me, rich VE people were weird enough to eat mummies, just remember. Where there is a will, there is a way.

  

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So, while automobiles exist, they are still incredibly new. Wizards are very slow on technology uptake, and most wealthy muggles don’t even have one yet.

Logistically, the roads in Hogsmeade would not be wide enough to accommodate a vehicle, and Philip is the only wizard who might even want to have one anyway, so if he wants to show off his automobile he can do it at an external residence.

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   Samantha Lockridge

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There lore reason I have seen is that electronics and electro magnetism doesnt work in the presence of high levels of magic. Although early cars were simple, they still relied on these principles to ignite the fuel air mix and kick out the piston to turn the crank. The first cars used something called a trembler coil to ignite the fuel which is a solenoid based system so no electic fields, no internal combustion.

  

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There lore reason I have seen is that electronics and electro magnetism doesnt work in the presence of high levels of magic. Although early cars were simple, they still relied on these principles to ignite the fuel air mix and kick out the piston to turn the crank. The first cars used something called a trembler coil to ignite the fuel which is a solenoid based system so no electic fields, no internal combustion.

As a sometimes-physics teacher, I can give you the science behind this and why it makes sense xD

  

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As a former-physics student, please do!

  

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As a former-physics student, please do!

OKAY SCIENCE LESSON TIME for anyone who cares.

Electricity is already known not to work well at Hogwarts (you know if we solely depended on it in 1895) but I digress.

Electromagnetic waves are transvers waves of both electrical and magnetic fields operating perpendicular to one another. They are not mechanical waves like sound and do not need a medium to travel through. Solar radiation (and other EM waves) can travel through the vacuum of space where as sound doesn't because it needs the molecules of air to bounce off and vibrate through. EM can however be deterred by certain mediums (think the insulation on your microwave to keep the very dangerous microwaves in or a lead vest while getting an x-ray). They can also lose energy rather easily once they are within a medium and do not have a consistent source powering them. For example, UV rays from the sun, once they go through the atmosphere and bounce off Earth's crust, lose their potency and become infrared radiation, which feels like heat and that is how the atmosphere is warmed.

The shorter and more frequent a wave, the more powerful they are. Radio waves are large (as tall as buildings) but need something to receive them like antenna and only have a certain range, not much really bothers them! Gamma rays are the shortest, and most dangerous but they need a consistent power source or they run out of energy really quickly.

My best educated scientific-magical guess is that a lot of magic in the air, like at Hogwarts or in Hogsmeade, becomes its own medium (like our atmosphere, though potentially thicker and less stable) that interferes with waves and changes their wavelength and frequency, making them sort of useless, so that needed electromagnetic induction for the trembler coil would be unstable and unreliable!

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I think that makes a lot of sense, and could explain how later wizards (in the mid/late 20th century) might have adapted the technology once the world and wizardry understood more about electromagnetism as a field.

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