1st Tree

[whatforbiddenforrest]

I don't suppose anybody would be willing to explain to me how eckle eklc eeeeelec electricity works? Or at least make up a diagram? I have a summer project that involves working out a way for electricity to work for wizards, and I'm not really sure where to start, so I figured asking the experts would be the best option.

The fate of the wizarding world could be at stake here so I expect proper answers! Don't think that just because I'm a pureblood means I'm ignorant or dumb!

Comments

[centaurstestes]

D --> Well, they collect it with kites and store it in wires
D --> Well, not really store it, since lightning doesn't stop moving until it hits something
D --> So the lightning is like a train and the wires are like rails
D --> That's why they have them strung up all over the place
D --> So that the lightning can keep traveling until it gets to where it needs to go

[whatforbiddenforrest]

I see, I see! So they brave lightning storms and collect the eklecity through a kite? How marvelous! I had no idea Muggles were such courageous people :)

[selfslushie]

Oh God.

[whatforbiddenforrest]

I said people! Not creatures. People.

[selfslushie]

...What?

[whatforbiddenforrest]

Oh.

Nevermind, I thought you were commenting about the time I accidentally called Muggles creatures.

[selfslushie]

Excuse me?

[whatforbiddenforrest]

...I'm just digging myself a deeper hole, aren't i?

[selfslushie]

Yes.

[whatforbiddenforrest]

I'll just...shut up then.

[selfslushie]

Good idea.

[centaurstestes]

D --> I think it's a bit stupid
D --> But I suppose they have to do something to make up for their lack of magic

[whatforbiddenforrest]

No no no, it's not stupid, it's ingenious. How they're so unaware of our own world yet they can do something as amazing as capture lightning and mold it into something like electricity! It's so fascinating.

[centaurstestes]

D --> I suppose
D --> I just think it's a rather good way to get killed
D --> But then, there are enough of them that I doubt anyone misses a few here and there

[whatforbiddenforrest]

...Well I suppose that's a rather morbid approach to it.

[centaurstestes]

D --> Well, you've seen trees struck by lightning, haven't you
D --> They burn
D --> I imagine if you don't harvest it right, the same could happen to you
D --> You need to ins001ate yourself
D --> I think they have bracelets that are supposed to protect against that