What If? XCOM Psi Operatives/ME Biotics in Harry Potter.

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An idea that recently popped into my head and won't go away. This isn't a versus match as its more of a discussion on how Wizarding World would react to the concept of empowered Muggles. Especially Muggles who are immune too or highly resistant to their mental manipulation magics; Muggle repellent charms, notice me not, ect ect.

In particular composite Psi Operatives from XCOM (EU/EW/2/WOTC) who can match Wizards as a peer or near peer combatants. As well as composite Biotics from ME 1, 2 and 3. Who may be less resistant mentally but every bit as much of a threat physically (and often paired with a Psionic squad member.

How do they react to this?
 

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Would they even class them as muggles anymore? Hags, Vampires and other magical humanoids aren't considered muggles even though they can't do wand magic. What makes a muggle? Squibs can't do magic, they can see all the magical creatures and effects that are normally invisible to muggles though.

Also, are we talking just the Psi/Biotics or the entire Alien invasion/Space Opera storyline as well?

In terms of any out and out 'combat'; the average guy with Psi powers is probably about the same effectiveness as the average wizard who doesn't have a job that involves fighting. I'd bet on the Psy or biotic guy in a fight in an average vs average simply because a wizard needs some actual training to do damage, whereas a temper tantrum from a pissed of biotic can kill you, same with the Psy - I assume, since we never see anyone untrained in Psi powers, unless we count 'normal humans' as just that. The average wizard can't cast a shield charm, or a stunning spell. They might be able to apparate away, but a biotic can wave their arm and paste you into the floor with a Push.

In a fight between trained peer opponents, I'd edge out wizard 7/10 in a throw-down. The versatility and damage out put that a wizard has makes this a game of rocket tag, but the average wizard can spec into damage and shielding. Whereas the Psi powers seem mutually exclusive in that regard. But I think the biggest issue would be exposure. How many people on average become Psi capable? Are wizard also Psi capable? If it's a few hundred people then it's not really a game changer, if it's any real percentage of a population though; then the statute of secrecy is effectively over unless the wizards want to commit genocide. I doubt they'd bother trying to really.

It'd probably be a good thing for everyone down the line on both the wizarding and the muggle side of things. It'd be the death of any sort of Voldemort style movement for sure. A wizard on wizard fight is one thing, but a wizard on Wizard, with a biotic, and a Psi trooper, and a bunch of muggles with charmed gear is a one sided affair.
 

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Also, are we talking just the Psi/Biotics or the entire Alien invasion/Space Opera storyline as well?


Since this discussion is fairly broad and open ended. Let's discuss both possibilities.
 

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Since this discussion is fairly broad and open ended. Let's discuss both possibilities.
In terms of Alien invasion at the same time then, Statute of secrecy is done pretty much out the gate. The Ethereals are going to be hunting down wizards just as much - if not more because of magic - as they are normies. There's no real way to run the war on two fronts concept where wizards and muggles keep separate. They're getting integrated into X-com. Even if the ministry refuses to officially do it, X-com would get wizard volunteers out the wazoo. Every kid and his mates wanted to get into the tournament and fight a dragon. Most of the schoolkids were fine with fighting the Death Eaters once they thought it was possible. An alien threat would have them out in droves.

Without an alien invasion, and with just humans spontaneously developing powers would probably be a slower decline; but still a definite decline.
 

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In terms of Alien invasion at the same time then, Statute of secrecy is done pretty much out the gate. The Ethereals are going to be hunting down wizards just as much - if not more because of magic - as they are normies. There's no real way to run the war on two fronts concept where wizards and muggles keep separate. They're getting integrated into X-com. Even if the ministry refuses to officially do it, X-com would get wizard volunteers out the wazoo. Every kid and his mates wanted to get into the tournament and fight a dragon. Most of the schoolkids were fine with fighting the Death Eaters once they thought it was possible. An alien threat would have them out in droves.

Without an alien invasion, and with just humans spontaneously developing powers would probably be a slower decline; but still a definite decline.
That sounds cool, and I wish Rowling didn't shit the bed by making it flatout impossible for muggles to have any meaningful way of contributing. Odds are the Aurors will use time-travel, mind-control, and other shady stuff to prevent the invasion from occuring before grabbing all the goodies and leaving them stored away somewhere to gather dust.

Because that's what they would try to do. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the Ministery tried to mindwipe everyone after a terror site mission, the XCOM soldiers included. Muggles aren't people to them, only barely sapient animals.

But assuming the wizards can't do that because the Etherals started the war by mind-controlling every muggle in London to hunt down wizards and witches like it's 28 days later or something other drastic, then things might be more even.
 

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That sounds cool, and I wish Rowling didn't shit the bed by making it flatout impossible for muggles to have any meaningful way of contributing.


Wait, what? How do you mean?


Odds are the Aurors will use time-travel, mind-control, and other shady stuff to prevent the invasion from occuring before grabbing all the goodies and leaving them stored away somewhere to gather dust.

Because that's what they would try to do.

Except they cant and wont. There is apparently some serious consequences to messing with time. Otherwise they'd have killed Grindlewald and Voldemort back when they were children to prevent their rise to power. They didn't and wouldn't do that.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Ministery tried to mindwipe everyone after a terror site mission, the XCOM soldiers included. Muggles aren't people to them, only barely sapient animals.

The Civilians I might be able to understand, but XCOM, an organization dedicated to Fighting back...I can't reason why they'd do that...or XCOM letting them.

But assuming the wizards can't do that because the Etherals started the war by mind-controlling every muggle in London to hunt down wizards and witches like it's 28 days later or something other drastic, then things might be more even.

The Elders have never displayed that level of power or control, ever. The one time they did they used Anette Durant as a sort of Psionic amplifier and that was an extreme outlier they couldn't reproduce.
 

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Wait, what? How do you mean?
A lot of magical things are just invisible to muggle in general without spells. And Rowling said that the statute of secrecy is still going strong forever - or at least up until the 2030-2040's. Sort of makes muggle kinda irrelevant in Harry Potter.


Except they cant and wont. There is apparently some serious consequences to messing with time. Otherwise they'd have killed Grindlewald and Voldemort back when they were children to prevent their rise to power. They didn't and wouldn't do that.
Cursed Child is canon according to Rowling. In that, they use a time turner - or a special type of time turner, it's not clear and I couldn't be fucked to read the whole dreck - to create multiple alternative and concurrent timelines. Which lets them make changes at will, with no issue. Voldemorts daughter (lol) goes back and it lets him win, and he genocides all the muggles. Terrible, dogshit book.
 

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A lot of magical things are just invisible to muggle in general without spells. And Rowling said that the statute of secrecy is still going strong forever - or at least up until the 2030-2040's. Sort of makes muggle kinda irrelevant in Harry Potter.


Yeah, this is stupid. The Statute shouldn't have survived up to that long. I could think 2010s maybe. After that? CCTV and Cell phone cameras make it a moot point.

Cursed Child is canon according to Rowling. In that, they use a time turner - or a special type of time turner, it's not clear and I couldn't be fucked to read the whole dreck - to create multiple alternative and concurrent timelines. Which lets them make changes at will, with no issue. Voldemorts daughter (lol) goes back and it lets him win, and he genocides all the muggles. Terrible, dogshit book.


Lol, what? Whats the reason for this? Because there is no way they could have achieved that outcome.
 

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Yeah, this is stupid. The Statute shouldn't have survived up to that long. I could think 2010s maybe. After that? CCTV and Cell phone cameras make it a moot point.
Yeah. Wizards have - in pottermore canon - been capable of covering up global fuckups. But I doubt they can keep doing it, or would even want to. The impetus for the whole 'secrecy' thing in the first place was 'lol, muggles are killing each other. Fuck that.' Most people hated it then; half their police department goes around fixing the fuckups that people constantly do. The majority of wizards seem to just flagrantly ignore it half the time anyways. My impression from the books was that it was on its last legs from sheer apathy on the part of the general public.

The idea that it'd last is irksome, because it implies that wizards are totally fine with ignoring muggles outright, which doesn't really gel with what we see of them in the books. A lot of them enjoy muggle culture, have muggleborn friends, live in muggle neighborhoods. It must be exhausting. It'd be like you living in your house now, but if you get seen using any with electricity the government comes in, fines you, and lobotomises all your friends.


Lol, what? Whats the reason for this? Because there is no way they could have achieved that outcome.
IIRC: Some kids go back, fuck up the Tri-wizard tournament, which makes Cedric a Death Eater; he then 86's Neville, which means that Nagini isn't killed, which means that Voldemort wins at Hogwarts and becomes 'dicktator' for life. EDIT: Rereading this shit gives me a headache. It's so bad.

Oh yeah, and Draco Malfoy of all fucking people is the one to invent 'perfect' time travel. Which is wild. The guy is basically a gigachad at that point. My man is rich as a sin, described as being tall, aristocratic looking, is their version of the star quarterback, and is also now a magical engineer capable of cracking a problem that's hundreds of years old in his late 30's.

As for how they beat the muggles. Book seems to imply Dementors. Which makes sense. Muggles can't perceive them, they bring winter wherever they go, eat people, and reproduce from fear and despair. Can't really fight 'invisible cold that makes you so depressed you want to die, then kills you.' In any meaningful way. Oh and the Ministry hires a seer to predict any problems that arise. This seer predictably (lol) predicts people time-travelling to this now alt timeline to stop Voldemort, and they get caught pretty much instantly.
 
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Yeah. Wizards have - in pottermore canon - been capable of covering up global fuckups. But I doubt they can keep doing it, or would even want to. The impetus for the whole 'secrecy' thing in the first place was 'lol, muggles are killing each other. Fuck that.' Most people hated it then; half their police department goes around fixing the fuckups that people constantly do. The majority of wizards seem to just flagrantly ignore it half the time anyways. My impression from the books was that it was on its last legs from sheer apathy on the part of the general public.

The idea that it'd last is irksome, because it implies that wizards are totally fine with ignoring muggles outright, which doesn't really gel with what we see of them in the books. A lot of them enjoy muggle culture, have muggleborn friends, live in muggle neighborhoods. It must be exhausting. It'd be like you living in your house now, but if you get seen using any with electricity the government comes in, fines you, and lobotomises all your friends.


Actually, I've found some channels that delve deep into the Lore. And originally there was genuine fear during the Salem Witch Trials and the rise of Christianity during the middle ages. Yes it killed a lot of Muggles but it also got a few Witches and Wizards too. One of the results of this was the Wizards developing the spell that allows them survive fire from burning. This wasn't helped with the 'it only takes one asshole with a wand to stir up the Muggles'. Which also happened a lot. So Wizards weren't exactly blameless either. That being said, its very nuanced.

But I think you are right. Most of them live alongside and have relationships outside the Magical world in the Muggle one. Aside from most Purebloods.


IIRC: Some kids go back, fuck up the Tri-wizard tournament, which makes Cedric a Death Eater; he then 86's Neville, which means that Nagini isn't killed, which means that Voldemort wins at Hogwarts and becomes 'dicktator' for life.

Oh yeah, and Draco Malfoy of all fucking people is the one to invent 'perfect' time travel. Which is wild. The guy is basically a gigachad at that point. My man is rich as a sin, described as being tall, aristocratic looking, is their version of the star quarterback, and is also now a magical engineer capable of cracking a problem that's hundreds of years old in his late 30's.

As for how they beat the muggles. Book seems to imply Dementors. Which makes sense. Muggles can't perceive them, they bring winter wherever they go, eat people, and reproduce from fear and despair. Can't really fight 'invisible cold that makes you so depressed you want to die, then kills you.' In any meaningful way. Oh and the Ministry hires a seer to predict any problems that arise. This seer predictably (lol) predicts people time-travelling to this now alt timeline to stop Voldemort, and they get caught pretty much instantly.

The Dementors I could possibly buy. But exterminate the entire human race? They aren't that powerful or numerous. But they are a threat.

As for the rest? Lol, what!? I smell heaps of bullshit there.
 

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Actually, I've found some channels that delve deep into the Lore. And originally there was genuine fear during the Salem Witch Trials and the rise of Christianity during the middle ages. Yes it killed a lot of Muggles but it also got a few Witches and Wizards too. One of the results of this was the Wizards developing the spell that allows them survive fire from burning. This wasn't helped with the 'it only takes one asshole with a wand to stir up the Muggles'. Which also happened a lot. So Wizards weren't exactly blameless either. That being said, its very nuanced.

But I think you are right. Most of them live alongside and have relationships outside the Magical world in the Muggle one. Aside from most Purebloods.
Ironically the purebloods were most opposed to having to isolate. Most of them were nobles at the time, and were high up in courtly life. One of them could have even ended up as literal royalty. Which would have radically - for the better - changed the world of Harry Potter.
In spite of their espousal of pure-blood values and their undoubtedly genuine belief in wizards’ superiority over Muggles, the Malfoys have never been above ingratiating themselves with the non-magical community when it suits them. The result is that they are one of the richest wizarding families in Britain, and it has been rumoured for many years (though never proven) that over the centuries the family has dabbled successfully in Muggle currency and assets. Over hundreds of years, they have managed to add to their lands in Wiltshire by annexing those of neighbouring Muggles, and the favour they curried with royalty added Muggle treasures and works of art to an ever-expanding collection...

and it is said that their fervent opposition to the imposition of the Statute was due, in part, to the fact that they would have to withdraw from this enjoyable sphere of social life. Though hotly denied by subsequent generations, there is ample evidence to suggest that the first Lucius Malfoy was an unsuccessful aspirant to the hand of Elizabeth I, and some wizarding historians allege that the Queen’s subsequent opposition to marriage was due to a jinx placed upon her by the thwarted Malfoy.

Actually, there are a few points where I could see the statute failing entirely. The wizard marrying a royal would mean it's outright not happening. WW1 it nearly failed because wizards wanted to help muggles. I imagine WW2 was the same.

The Dementors I could possibly buy. But exterminate the entire human race? They aren't that powerful or numerous. But they are a threat.
The problem is they breed, and the impetus for their breeding is human misery. If wizards just washed their hands of them, they could potentially become a real bad infestation. Especially if they don't outright kill everyone and instead just snack every now and again. Because they also grow like fungus in places of sufficient suffering.

They could definitely hollow out towns. But even when they actually happened in the books, the Dementors being unleashed on London just made it perpetually sleet and misty, which makes the idea of a muggle extermination kind of hard to buy.

As for the rest? Lol, what!? I smell heaps of bullshit there.
Cursed child is essentially bullshit in my opinion. I would argue it's about as canon as every other piece of fanfic, but Rowling did a 'whoo, you go kweeeennn!!' and said it was canon. Which...yeah.[/quote]
 

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So the question becomes. How does the Wider Wizarding world react to the idea of Muggle Psi Operatives who, is at least capable, are comparable to Wizards in terms of combat strength?
 

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So the question becomes. How does the Wider Wizarding world react to the idea of Muggle Psi Operatives who, is at least capable, are comparable to Wizards in terms of combat strength?
They wouldn't care at first. A Psi Operative is unlikely to kick off the surveilance the Ministery has for magic being used.
It will take a good while before the news about some muggle using magic-esque abilities without a ward, and there's no doubt in my mind that even muggleborn adults will at first dismiss these psi-users as charlatarns. After all, how could these silly muggles ever hope to match them?

Once the realization kicks in, hell will break loose for a long while during which the various wizarding goverment will try to abduct the psi-users and mind-wipe everyone else because obviously muggles can't be trusted with these abilities. The Operatives will not comply with that bullshit, and six months later, you have a nasty war as aurors and psi operatives duke it out with the muggle and wizarding citizens being caught in the crossfire. Even if a cease fire is negotiated, the bitterness will remain.

The cultures of non-magics will shift from "Magic isn't real" to "Fuck these assholes!" while the wizarding cultures will go from "Silly animals, thinking they are people" to "Oh shit, they can and will fight back!", with muggleborn wizards being bullied and wizardborn psi-users being viewed with suspicion.
 

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They wouldn't care at first. A Psi Operative is unlikely to kick off the surveilance the Ministery has for magic being used.
It will take a good while before the news about some muggle using magic-esque abilities without a ward, and there's no doubt in my mind that even muggleborn adults will at first dismiss these psi-users as charlatarns. After all, how could these silly muggles ever hope to match them?

Once the realization kicks in, hell will break loose for a long while during which the various wizarding goverment will try to abduct the psi-users and mind-wipe everyone else because obviously muggles can't be trusted with these abilities. The Operatives will not comply with that bullshit, and six months later, you have a nasty war as aurors and psi operatives duke it out with the muggle and wizarding citizens being caught in the crossfire. Even if a cease fire is negotiated, the bitterness will remain.

The cultures of non-magics will shift from "Magic isn't real" to "Fuck these assholes!" while the wizarding cultures will go from "Silly animals, thinking they are people" to "Oh shit, they can and will fight back!", with muggleborn wizards being bullied and wizardborn psi-users being viewed with suspicion.


Wow...you are cynical. :p


And yet...some of that certainly rings true. Thoughts @Rhyse?
 

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They wouldn't care at first. A Psi Operative is unlikely to kick off the surveilance the Ministery has for magic being used.
It will take a good while before the news about some muggle using magic-esque abilities without a ward, and there's no doubt in my mind that even muggleborn adults will at first dismiss these psi-users as charlatarns. After all, how could these silly muggles ever hope to match them?

Once the realization kicks in, hell will break loose for a long while during which the various wizarding goverment will try to abduct the psi-users and mind-wipe everyone else because obviously muggles can't be trusted with these abilities. The Operatives will not comply with that bullshit, and six months later, you have a nasty war as aurors and psi operatives duke it out with the muggle and wizarding citizens being caught in the crossfire. Even if a cease fire is negotiated, the bitterness will remain.

The cultures of non-magics will shift from "Magic isn't real" to "Fuck these assholes!" while the wizarding cultures will go from "Silly animals, thinking they are people" to "Oh shit, they can and will fight back!", with muggleborn wizards being bullied and wizardborn psi-users being viewed with suspicion.
Wow...you are cynical. :p


And yet...some of that certainly rings true. Thoughts @Rhyse?
Sorta? Most wizards outright don't care about muggles from what we see in the books. Voldemorts psychotic little brain trust though, yeah, they'd definitely organise shit like this. I doubt the actual ministry would though; from what we see of them, they're just apathetic to muggles at worst, and at best are outright friendly. With the Minister of Magic prioritizing the safety of the muggle PM over many of his own workers.

The problem is - as always - the other side has magic. In real life, the government has the absolute monopoly on violence. People can LARP otherwise, but the government can drop a JDAM on you, and there's literally nothing you can do about that. This isn't the case for wizards. The government passes laws, but wizards don't seem to live near each other, so any enforcement of those laws is weak as hell. You can't break up meetings when the meetings can happen in the mirror universe - new fantastic beasts is wild - and you can't stamp out rebellious movements when they can kill you as easily as you can kill them. In real life, the government having all the infrastructure, means of production and cities makes them hard targets for random civvies that want to fight them; for wizards it's the reverse. A wizard can fuck off to the woods and from there blow any and all targets he so chooses to hell with impunity. Any sort of 'mass action' by the wizard government seems limited to about a dozen people, given free reign to 'deal with' problems that arise. Aurors are under the control of the DMLE sure; but what that looks like in practice is wizards picking targets, teleport raiding them, and returning to base under their own initiative. Which doesn't make for solid top down control.

(This is of course, all inferences from the books, Rowling didn't say any of this; because this is super autistic lol. I'm trying to rationalize the little we see of their population structure)

I'd say it might cause a civil war among the wizards. A proper one as well, none of this coup bullshit that Voldemort pulled. When Voldemort did his thing, he kept it fairly quiet. I'm sure a lot of people knew the truth, but Voldemort wasn't in office. The illusion of democracy and normalcy remained. If the minister ordered the abduction, or attack of random muggles who appear magical - in the same way Hags, Giants, Vampires, Merfolk, and others are magical - people would shit a brick. Voldemort initiated a limited pogrom while he had peoples children hostage, while his men had infiltrated government and were mind controlling people, while he was the single most powerful wizard around and had come back from literally dying. Half the population still went against him, and his cadre of diehard consisted of about fifteen people - most of whom were mentally ill - that stayed loyal when things got tough.

That was a man so powerful that his temper tantrum caused an Earthquake while he dueling Flitwick. To fight Voldemort was to just die, outright. You lose, do not pass go, straight to the grave. If you beat him, congrats, cunts immortal he'll be back, if you lost, congrats, your family is now dead. It was, to the average wizard, a lost cause. Even when it was easy as hell to surrender, loads of them still fought with the intention of dying to spite his cause.

Fudge, and Umbridge, and people like the Carrows aren't Voldemort. The second they started actively rounding people up, the country would shit the bed and there'd be hell. None of that 'Oh we'll go along and keep our heads down'. It'd be 'Hang the fuck on, I'm not taking orders from this prick! I'm a better wizard than he is!'. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am, that not only is the statute of secrecy done for; but that the government of wizarding Britain might also be done for. Compelling people to work at gunpoint already barely works, it's not going to work at all if they can teleport.

That then of course opens up a lot of issues since the muggle world is going to soon learn that the assumption of 'Humans are the only intelligent life on Earth' is hilariously wrong. Of the top of my head: Hags, Trolls, Vampires, Giants, Veela, Sphinxes, Acromantula, Centaurs, Merpeople, House-elves and Goblins are all at least as intelligent as a human is. On top of that, the economy is going to go tits up. There's an entirely alien banking system that exists alongside the normal ones. Wizards make most resource jobs almost entirely obsolete. Medicine would be revolutonised, then made horrific when carefully controlled outbreaks of magical sickness become less controlled as thinks break down - not even sure how to diagnose 'bits of the patient keep teleporting away randomly - which would not be helpful.

Muggles can't really control anything as shit spirals. They can't be bombing their own cities, Psis being able to see through anti-muggle charms doesn't help when some Voldermort Stan teleports into Piccadily circus, shouts 'Merlina Ackbar!!' and blasts apart fifty people, then teleports away. If we're talking world wide, there'd be reactionary movements springing up everywhere. People supporting Voldemorts ways, people supporting Grindelwalds ways, people demanding the end of the statute formally, people not caring and going full 'Sovereign citizen' and breaking it openly. Even if Dumbledore is still alive, I'm not sure what he'd do honestly. The man seems to be single goal oriented around 'Kill Lich'. I could see a lot of muggleborns going to the news, or the government and outright saying 'wanna hire a wizard?'. Actually, in general I could see that happening, pottermore notes that fucking Rolls Royce have a magical department because they sell enchanted cars. (Or the pureblood brought a car and enchanted it, either way shows that 'ooh, shiny toy!' is an effective way to bribe wizards.).

The wizarding world as Rowling presents is gone though. There's no coming back for it, the only question is if it goes slow or fast.
 

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Medicine would be revolutonised, then made horrific when carefully controlled outbreaks of magical sickness become less controlled as thinks break down - not even sure how to diagnose 'bits of the patient keep teleporting away randomly - which would not be helpful.


I agree with a lot of this but this point sticks out. One thing the Magical world doesn't have is the ability to mass produce alot of their stuff. It just simply isn't there. I could see Magical cures being a specialized remedy they could give. Maybe have Healers work with scientists to find answers to problems. But by and large, unless the Non magic world can reproduce magical effects, in bulk, then while magic will be useful, it won't be economy shattering.

What'll likely happen is that both economies will start to overlap. There will be friction and adjustments, and then they'll start to merge. Now, unless I missed something, Magical diseases don't affect Non magic people. Because they are essentially missing the key ingredient of 'magic' to sustain the disease...which seams to feed off it in some way. Otherwsie there'd have been mass outbreaks long before now.


As for Psionics and Biotics. The Magical world accepts them as a part of themselves? Or still views them as Muggles? Or people who just straddle that line?
 

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I agree with a lot of this but this point sticks out. One thing the Magical world doesn't have is the ability to mass produce alot of their stuff. It just simply isn't there. I could see Magical cures being a specialized remedy they could give. Maybe have Healers work with scientists to find answers to problems. But by and large, unless the Non magic world can reproduce magical effects, in bulk, then while magic will be useful, it won't be economy shattering.
The duplicating spell makes material create copies of itself, and that copy then makes copies, and so on. Those copies then also keep other spells put on them. The copies are 'worthless' in that they degrade faster, but the creators of the spell used it to make copies of their own stuff right up until they died, so the degradation can't be that fast.

The main issue though is energy. If I charge a million pounds to magic a turbine to spin forever, I just made the energy sector implode. Food as well, the duplicating spell works on cake, to the point where a single casting filled an entire room with them. There is also a spell that fills a container with a beverage of choice, so the spells don't seem to cause an issue if you eat conjured matter. Potions though, they IIRC need at least one wand motion to make work. So you'd have a bottleneck there. You could hire a wizard to just stand on an assembly line and do that part though...maybe, potions are weird.

What'll likely happen is that both economies will start to overlap. There will be friction and adjustments, and then they'll start to merge. Now, unless I missed something, Magical diseases don't affect Non magic people. Because they are essentially missing the key ingredient of 'magic' to sustain the disease...which seams to feed off it in some way. Otherwsie there'd have been mass outbreaks long before now.
Nope, magical disease affect normies just fine. They're just kind of super fucking lethal. Werewolf maulings for example only heal with essence of dittany and silver. Imagine being a doctor, and your patient comes in and literally will not stop bleeding. Nothing you do works, no clotting agent works, bandaged just bleed through, it never heals. Nightmarish

Pottermore says on contagions
Not only is the Muggle world free of such perils as Devil’s Snare and Blast-Ended Skrewts, the Statute of Secrecy has also kept us free from contact with anyone who could pass on Dragon Pox (as the name implies, originally contracted by wizards working closely with Peruvian Vipertooths) or Spattergroit.
Purely a contact issue.
As for Psionics and Biotics. The Magical world accepts them as a part of themselves? Or still views them as Muggles? Or people who just straddle that line?
Worse than a wizard, better than a squib. They'd probably do what they did with other magical humanoids like Goblins: Ask them if they want to legally be classed as beasts or beings. fun fact, Centaurs chose the former, because they're super fucking racist and didn't want to be in the same class as Hags. Which is ... hilarious to me. That'd be like Native Americans asking to be reclassed as animals because 'Fuck the Chinese' or something.

Being classed as a being IIRC means you get all the freedom of a wizard, but also all the responsbility for yourself under law. Beasts get their shit cleaned up for them if they eat a kid or stuff like that, but aren't found in civilised company as a result. Which leads to the weird situation where obligate predators of humans (Vampires drink blood, and Hags eat fucking babies!) are just roaming around Diagon Alley, shopping for things. But the centaurs and Merfolk live on their own reservations.
 

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What about the Psionics that are still furious at the wizarding goverment of the UK? I can see them forming some sort of IRA to try and get back at the suits that abducted them.

And yeah, hags and vampires being considered beings rather than beasts is gonna be a sore sticking point for the muggle world.
 

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