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YOU ARE ALL WRONG… Harry Potter is real.


thatnewjunior

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Yes, yes, I am a Potterhead. I own and have read all the books (numerous times), I own and have watched all the movies (numerous times), I have been to Universal's The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and I own the House scarves and a wand or two. However, bias aside, I would love to point out the real-world possibilities of Harry Potter being real.

Well, I mean, of course Harry Potter could be real. In fact, that is quite a common name, across the pond. Besides, why can't a black-haired boy of that name have tragically lost his parents in a freak double-murder (or, to muggles, an in-home explosion; or, to Mrs. Dursley, a car crash) and then been visited by a strange fellow while living with his unfortunate kin and then carted off to an extraordinary boarding school where he unlocked his own supreme potential? But you don't want to hear about all that. You want to hear about magic.

Believe me, I have done everything in my power to make my light turn on and off on its own. Or to summon my textbook without getting out of my chair. I have finally come to the conclusion that I am unable to perform magic, as was basically confirmed when I did not receive my invitation to Hogwarts on my 11th birthday :(.

But let us say that magic is real. Let's say that a 'swish and flick' and "Leviosa" not "Leviosaw" could make magic. Then we can ponder how a small puff of light could send somebody hurtling backwards through the air. Ever seen an explosion? You can seriously see a shockwave running away from the explosion, with the really powerful ones. Perhaps the force that knocks the victims back is an amplified shock wave, made greater than normal for the size of the puff by the emotion and effort that the wielder had put into the spell. Maybe (as Master Yoda has taught us) size matters not, and perhaps what we can see of the spell is not all there is to it. There is a chance that the light that we see is only what the human eye and mind can comprehend, and that really there is power from the spell directly striking the victim, or perhaps shooting off in all directions and it is the thoughts of the wielder that direct a bolt of the spell to the victim. Perhaps that is why some spells go wrong and hit the wrong person or people; maybe the wielder is not focused or not skilled enough.

If you do not see the connection to physics, then you are not reading hard enough. Besides, physics is everything, right?

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