I have got this idea...

I have got this idea... by James Shields on 2014-09-05 19:21:00 UTC

I can! by James Shields on 2014-09-05 21:15:00 UTC Reply

Well, there is the Alexandra Quick series. Its not actually set in Salem, but in a place called Charmbridge Academy though. Its quite insteresting. You got a deeply flawed but believable main character, elements that are completely different from the Britanic Wizarding World... But, I got to warn you that this thing gets darker than most of HP pretty quickly.

On magic and electronic devices. by James Shields on 2014-09-06 23:29:00 UTC Reply

Fellow Potterheads, help me with something here. We know that electronics installing go haywire in Hogwarts. But Hogwarts is an institution where students and teachers have practice a lot of magic daily for a period of over a millennium.

So if you were to have a house were a Wizarding family has moved since only about five years old ago and where they don't use a lot of magic daily, since they live in a Muggle neighborhood and have Muggle relatives in both the parents' families, would things like electrodomestics work in that house or not?

"ThereÂ’s too much magic in the airÂ”" by Hieronymus Graubart on 2014-09-07 19:34:00 UTC Reply

probably applies only to places like Hogwarts, St. Mungo’s, the Ministry of Magic or the Quidditch World Cup campsite. But I would like to see some malfunctions, and the wizards complaining that the device doesn’t work as well as the Muggle salesperson had promised, and the Muggle repairperson not being able to find the problem. They may never realize that it only malfunctions when they use a lot of magic over a short time, because using magic is so normal to them that they don’t recognize this as a special condition. Did they ever read Hogwarts: A History?

HG

Re: On magic and electronic devices. by AdmiralSakai on 2014-09-07 19:11:00 UTC Reply

I sort of always thought that Hogwarts's "jamming" properties were not so much just a result of a bunch of general magic having been practiced there as they were an intentional or unintentional effect of the absolutely ridiculous number of protective spells placed on the area. I don't really have anything to back that up, but I'd be surprised if jamming teleportation, scrying, certain types of flight, and a whole bunch of other things didn't also screw with electromagnetic fields.

That makes sense by James Shields on 2014-09-07 19:37:00 UTC Reply

Yeah, all the dozens of powerful Wards probably would screw them up. Of course, it could be one, the other or any combination of the two. Personally, I am just looking at the cummulative magic angle right now. The family in my fic wouldn´t have any sort of Wards as well after all.

I would say they do... by Iximaz on 2014-09-07 00:15:00 UTC Reply

...since Hogwarts is the only place specifically stated to be like that in canon.

I thought as much by James Shields on 2014-09-07 03:11:00 UTC Reply

I just wanted it clarified, that's all. It is bad just... I have seen some pretty bad stuff regarding this, where fanfic writers handwave things like four wizards living a house and using magic all the time but having a phone still work or even Glaurunging uncanonical abominations like magical laptops! Obviously I don't to become like that, so I am asking.