Muggle vs. Magical (SS/HG Exchange Brainstorming/Research)

[m_mcgonagall_65]

Muggle vs. Magical -- What if Hogwarts had a club to introduce Muggle things to the students?  What things would Muggles do just as well at or better than the Wizarding World and why?  At what things would the Wizarding World excel?  For example, Muggle vs. Magical cheesemaking?  Chocolates?  Wine-making?  Literature?  Theater?  Entertainment?  Medicine?  Other ideas?

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[droxy.livejournal.com]

Muggles organize better than wizards- computer/net/email no owl droppings and no soot.

Literature and even art I think would be a tie. Ditto with knitting, muggles have machines to do it, wizards use magic.

Wizards beat muggles on apparation.

Wizards have house elves. A win on their side.

Muggles beat wizards on entertainment. Muggles have more sports, more events, cons, amusement parks, games, movies, music vids, much broader range of music and bands, pinball-arcades, parades, MArdi-gras, TV, movies on demand, theater, planetariums,etc.

Muggles may beat wizards at interior design.

Muggles may beat wizards at advances in astronomy and space exploration.

Telecommunciations- the mobile phone, ipad, ebook.

Muggles have more variety of office supplies- pens, post its, pencils and erasers, more paper product than I can name. Wizards just seem to use quills and parchement. (I am not counting the movie where there were standard compisition notebooks)

Divination- wizards have a slight edge, but it's still mostly hocus pocus.

Housework- I think wizards win here, as one could clean and organize a house very fast with spells.

Wizards win on the banking system from what I know of it.

Politicans- draw. No matter what they are, policians and govt officals are the same.

[m-mcgonagall-65.livejournal.com]

I totally agree that housework, either using charms or house-elves, must be way easier in the Wizarding world.

And I also liked your spin on the telecommunications (trust you to think of that), paper supplies, computers and telephones. And entertainment. We really don't hear much about that in the books, but then, everything is from Harry's point of view.

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Entertainment seems limited to: Quidditch, organized parties, reading, games(exploding snap), going out eat or drink (the leaky, and the wizard radio.

[m-mcgonagall-65.livejournal.com]

Just think how much longer the books would have been if they had to discuss what the teenagers did on the weekends. :)