Indeed. This world creating is hard work! Perhaps you have to be an incredible nerd like Tolkien to get it internally consistent (and even then he changed his minds on lots of things).
I know this stuff is fantasy and you shouldn't ask these questions but I ended up doing a lot of thinking as I watched the Harry Potter movies with my children. Like, why is there this divide between wizard and muggle worlds, when the wizard stuff would be useful? Your laptop breaks and you need a new one, pay a little extra and get it apparated to you from Amazon in 5 minutes.
And why is there money, and what are Voldermort's followers fighting for? They can conjure up palaces and presumably Ferraris to drive around in and bottles of Chateau Petrus. Why bother killing other wizards?
Given that the Wizarding World does not have fractional reserve banking - and most wealth appears to be hoarded in physical vaults - it is unsurprising that they don’t appear to have a dynamic private sector economy.
Indeed. This world creating is hard work! Perhaps you have to be an incredible nerd like Tolkien to get it internally consistent (and even then he changed his minds on lots of things).
I know this stuff is fantasy and you shouldn't ask these questions but I ended up doing a lot of thinking as I watched the Harry Potter movies with my children. Like, why is there this divide between wizard and muggle worlds, when the wizard stuff would be useful? Your laptop breaks and you need a new one, pay a little extra and get it apparated to you from Amazon in 5 minutes.
And why is there money, and what are Voldermort's followers fighting for? They can conjure up palaces and presumably Ferraris to drive around in and bottles of Chateau Petrus. Why bother killing other wizards?
Given that the Wizarding World does not have fractional reserve banking - and most wealth appears to be hoarded in physical vaults - it is unsurprising that they don’t appear to have a dynamic private sector economy.
good point! Though classical Greece managed to generate a pretty huge surplus without fractional reserve banking either