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 --> It's made from lightning

[speedily]

Why would you bother with electricity? Magic is far superior.

[whatforbiddenforrest]

Well I know that much! But how does it work? How do they store it in those tiny bulbs that they hang from the ceilings and work those complicated devices?

[whatforbiddenforrest]

I have a dream, Vidia. Think of the beautiful music that we'd be able to create if we had access to electricity!

[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

[speedily]

Surely there's some spell to replicate the sound you're looking for?

[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.

[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]

Music isn't something you can recreate through magic.

[whatforbiddenforrest]

I said people! Not creatures. People.

[selfslushie]

...What?

[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.

[speedily]

I doubt that.

[whatforbiddenforrest]

Oh.

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

[screaminginthedark]

oh my god

well the first guy is totally wrong

it's has nothing to do with electricity and kites

[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'm quite sure you could try but it wouldn't sound the same. Music is a passion! It shouldn't be recreated through simple wand work when holding a guitar in your own hands makes such beautiful sound!

[centaurstestes]

D --> And I suppose you know the right answer

[whatforbiddenforrest]

It doesn't?

[speedily]

And magic isn't passion?

[selfslushie]

Excuse me?

[whatforbiddenforrest]

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

[whatforbiddenforrest]

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

[screaminginthedark]

i know more than you, obviously

i was practically raised a muggle