Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts

Monday, December 30, 2013

Magic... is Unnatural

One of the predicates of the arguments made in the other articles on magic is that, in the world of the story in which magic appears, the “magic” is a more or less natural phenomenon. While the “…means apparently unrelated to [the] ends…” which constitute the magic are apparently unrelated from our point view, they are, in fictional fact, related. Even a freshman student just on their way to Hogwarts can learn that saying “oculus reparo” and waving a particular stick will repair glasses. Harry is surprised because he’s lived with muggles his whole life. But it doesn’t surprise Hermione or anyone else in the “wizarding world”. It is the common way of fixing glasses it would seem, and simply “the way things are”; just like heating up bread in the real world makes it into toast.