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10:42pm April 5, 2015

prokopetz:

Random Headcanon: The reason the Wizarding World in Harry Potter uses such arse-backwards technology isn’t cultural elitism. (Well, not entirely.) Rather, it’s because if you enchant anything more complicated than a screwdriver, it tends to become sentient over time. Devices that use electricity are particularly bad for this, and almost always “wake up” eventually. Arthur Weasley’s car going rogue and running off to live in a forest is actually a fairly favourable outcome; the students still tell horror stories about what happened to the guy who smuggled in (and subsequently enchanted) a digital wristwatch.

I always figured it was just because you didn’t need all the extra tech when your own technology is magic. Like who needs airplanes when you have broomsticks and magic carpets? Not the best example but you know what I mean. So the adoption of Muggle technology is naturally slower and on an as needed basis. This can lead to snobbery but the snobbery isn’t the origin of this issue, just one possible result of it.  

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