Harry Potter Headcannons

Chapter 207

It's just occurred to me that the most telling scene in the entire Harry Potter franchise is the scene following the announcement of the participants of the Triwizard tournament.

When Harry's name is pulled out of the cup, literally one of the first things he is asked is "did you ask an older boy to put your name in the cup for you?" or something to that effect, insinuating that, that was something nobody prepared for and that it was something that totally would have worked if anyone had been smart enough to figure it out.

However, in an earlier scene a student is turned into a hundred year old man when they try to artificially age themselves with a potion and put their name into the cup. Meaning someone trying to dangerously age themselves with potion they aren't familiar with was something the teachers genuinely considered to be more likely than someone asking for help from another student.

In other words, the wizards in Harry Potter's world are so reliant on magic that it doesn't occur to anyone save for people like Harry that asking for help is even an option in a given situation. This explains why wizards are so backwards at everything, they're so confident that their magic is capable of doing everything for them that it has never occurred to anyone that perhaps asking for help from the Muggle world might be of some use.

Think about it, the wizarding world hasn't changed in hundreds of years while in that same space of time the Muggle world has figured out space travel. I know it's a cliché to say to say someone could have shot Voldemort, but seriously, somebody totally could have, he killed countless people, he was effectively a terrorist, if anyone in the wizarding world bothered to ask for help from the Muggles they may have been able to help.

Pretty much the only reason Voldemort thinks he's better than Muggles is because he's able to kill them with impunity using magic, something he's only able to do so easily because Muggles don't understand what magic is. Voldemort is basically like a disease, he's an invisible, lurking entity preying on mankind from the shadows like a cowardly lunatic. You know what else did that? Smallpox. And we stomped that to death the second we understood it. That's the difference between Muggles and wizards, when Muggles don't understand something, they figure it out.

And here's the kicker, the only reason Muggles don't understand magic at all is because the wizarding world deliberately withholds information about it. However, even if the wizarding world kept doing that, it'd only be a matter of time until a Muggle figured out what magic was and how to stop or harness it because that's what humanity does, it pushes past what we think is impossible to see what's on the other side. We didn't understand the sun as a species originally and now we use it to power satellites and smartphones.

The wizarding world isn't a realm of infinite possibilities, it's a universe of strict limitations where boundaries are never questioned. The Muggle world is where the real magic happens. That's why during the course of the Harry Potter books, , the Muggle world discovered dark matter, cloned a sheep and invented MP3s while the wizarding world were literally paying some idiot to figure out what the purpose of a rubber duck was.

"Oh, he just turns invisible? Right, we'll get a SWAT team with heat vision goggles on it. You can expect your Dark Lord dead in about an hour."