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Harry Potter and the Military Industrial Complex
I've never read the books, but I'm curious what the point even is of going to Hogwarts to hone your magic in secrecy. What is the magic applied to long-term? What do you do with it after you've graduated?
They used it to create potions and spells that are equivalent to the medical industry, as well as the beauty industry, sports, frivolous things like that.
It's implied serious research goes on, but never really shown.
There's also wizard versions of cops, and government officials, naturally.
Magical knowledge replaces engineering and math as well. A civil engineer's building design equivalent would be a series of complicated spells put on a small building to make it a massive one inside.
Also in the books, Hogwarts was really only secret to the muggles, every wizard in Britain knows where it is.
But imagine all the high schoolers who complain "why do I need to learn algebra, I won't even need it in [job]. It's like that. Some won't need it, but it's still a useful skill.
Lol I don't think it's ever really explained beyond "improve the lives of secret magic people." But I think a common trope of a lot of fantasy media with mages is that they get so caught up in the magic, they tend to ignore everything else going on around them, which often leads to either a clash with non-magic people, or a reluctant alliance.
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Haven't read the books either, but I have seen some of the movies.
Basically everything in the Wizarding world is done with magic. Travel, communication, cooking, dishes, the lot. You can't even enter the world without either magical knowledge or someone showing you how, even Harry Potter himself needed someone to guide him through.
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Started reading that once. I think it was fairly newish then, but I'm not sure. It irritated how they did my boy Ronald. Movie Ron was a box of hair with a broken wand, but book Ron was clever and inventive and generally very good at creative problem solving.
I personally think it depends on exactly what the limits of Magic are - it could be anything from Muggles eradicating Wizards, to the opposite, all very plausibly. To me, it comes down to the power of modern surveillance vs. the power of notice-me-not + space-expansion + anti-detection spells. Plus there’s a whole bunch of other powerful spells and devices (time turners, for example), but the muggles have a while fuckton of gold and other valuables to recruit these capabilities to their side as well.
I would also consider the logistics of war. There's a military saying: novices study tactics, experts study logistics.
How long would it take to train a wizard to get to that level vs. a muggle with a gun? It feels like the classic knight vs. armed peasant situation.
That plus being able to cut off food supplies or infrastructure- just saying the US military was able to take out sadams military capabilities faster than he could react.
But the inverse also applies - there’s not much stopping wizards from portkeying/apparating into the Oval Office or the pentagon and magibombing them, or Avada-ing key targets. Wizards are probably the worst kind of guerrilla fighters - ones unchecked by range. And as far as food is concerned, food multiplication is a thing. I personally believe that in the long term, the way muggles would win would be through subverting wizards, not by pure overwhelming force.
Wizards win logistics, they can enchant a car to hold as much as a 747. They can teleport, fly, levitate, and banish things. Their biggest problem is raw numbers.
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