Timeline for How did wizards talk/exchange messages with each other over long distances?
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| Nov 14, 2016 at 13:29 | comment | added | Cooper | @mayankbudhwani Fireplaces are a necessity in the Wizarding World - every home has one, much like every Muggle house has a telephone or a computer. Until the mobile phone revolution in the last decade we had the same limitations. What to do if you were out and about? Use a payphone - I wonder if Wizarding communities have public fireplaces? Presumably places like The three Broomsticks allow anyone to use it - that's how the Weasley's got to Diagon Alley in CoS. And if you're in the middle of the countryside? Without good phone signal Muggles are just as isolated - except they can't apparate. | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 4:37 | answer | added | Bernard the Bear | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 2:04 | vote | accept | mayank budhwani | ||
| Apr 4, 2016 at 17:27 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Oriol Hard science and Harry Potter is worse than sex and unicorns. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 16:18 | comment | added | Broklynite | Magic mirror? Old but classic. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 16:07 | answer | added | ThruGog | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:53 | comment | added | ThruGog | @Anthony Grist - The HP Lexicon tells me Dumbledore invented it, though I've not yet found another source. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:53 | comment | added | ibid | @AnthonyGrist - IIRC JKR said in some interview that Dumbledore invented it. I think we see him use it in book four. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | Anthony Grist | @ThruGog No indication that Dumbledore invented the Patronus messenger. I'm not even sure we ever see Dumbledore use it (he uses Fawkes to deliver a written letter in Order of the Phoenix). Kingsley, McGonagall and Arthur Weasley use it, from memory; admittedly they're all members of the Order so it's possible it's something Dumbledore discovered and only taught to other Order members. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:46 | comment | added | Oriol | Does "instantly" mean faster than light? And does "exactly where" mean bypassing the uncertainty principle? | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:45 | answer | added | Anthony Grist | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:45 | comment | added | ThruGog | @Rand al'thor - I think that is the answer right there. All wizard homes would surely have a fireplace and even public buildings like the Ministry are seen to have them. Then you just don't need a telephone. (Dumbledore invented the Patronus messenger didn't he, so most can't use that). | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | Matt Gutting | If they were in a Muggle locality they wouldn't be allowed to use magic, or probably even refer to the fact that there were wizards. And they certainly don't seem to have central heating in their houses; fireplaces are much more widespread than you might think. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:26 | comment | added | mayank budhwani | But both have to be near a fireplace.. And if they were in a Muggle locality??.. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:25 | history | edited | mayank budhwani | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:25 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | The Floo Network. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 15:25 | history | asked | mayank budhwani | CC BY-SA 3.0 |