Why the Wizards Use Old-Fashioned Things

What:
Lecture
When:
3:40 PM, Saturday 30 Jul 2022 (1 hour)
Where:
Orange County Convention Center - Hypatia Room (W232ABC)

The witches and wizards in the Harry Potter novels use many old-fashioned things, such as quills, parchment, and torches. Some other contemporary fictional representations of witches and wizards (such as Bewitched and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) show magical folks using telephones and electricity quite routinely. So why did J. K. Rowling build her world so differently? This presentation examines the use of such old-fashioned items in the novels and shows that each such item was included in the books as a logical consequence of the wizards going into hiding in 1692, that is, as a result of The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.

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