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| - The Wizarding World according to Z.P. Smith is a secluded to non-wizards, in which wizards live and interact with one another. It is unnoticeable by non-wizards due to certain charms and spells. It is very rare that wizards leave their world unless they are interacting with non-wizards. At times they do leave their world they are forbidden to expose it to anyone.
- In addition to wizards and witches, the Wizarding World is occupied by goblins, house-elves, centaurs, giants, dementors and various wild and pet magical creatures. The Harry Potter books primarily focus on aspects of the Wizarding World on the British Isles, but other regions with known magical communities include France, Bulgaria, and the United States, among several others. The Wizarding World has its own mail service utilizing owls.
- Magic is honed through study, training and formal schooling, but cannot be simply learnt by Muggles. Non-magic skills, such as picking a lock with a hairpin rather than an Unlocking Charm, are uncommon to the point of novel rarity. Magic is used for mostly everything, including cooking, cleaning, travelling, communicating, child rearing and medical treatment. Although on the surface, magic appears morally neutral, the benevolence or malevolence of a spell's nature is tied to the intention behind it. For instance, the Cruciatus Curse cannot effectively torture a victim with pain unless the caster desires to do true harm to the victim. The technology of the wizarding world appears medieval in character (such as Hogwarts not having any lifts, but instead having only stairs), as the use of mag
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| - Magic is honed through study, training and formal schooling, but cannot be simply learnt by Muggles. Non-magic skills, such as picking a lock with a hairpin rather than an Unlocking Charm, are uncommon to the point of novel rarity. Magic is used for mostly everything, including cooking, cleaning, travelling, communicating, child rearing and medical treatment. Although on the surface, magic appears morally neutral, the benevolence or malevolence of a spell's nature is tied to the intention behind it. For instance, the Cruciatus Curse cannot effectively torture a victim with pain unless the caster desires to do true harm to the victim. The technology of the wizarding world appears medieval in character (such as Hogwarts not having any lifts, but instead having only stairs), as the use of magic precludes the need for advanced technology (as well as the fact that magic interferes with electrical equipment).
- In addition to wizards and witches, the Wizarding World is occupied by goblins, house-elves, centaurs, giants, dementors and various wild and pet magical creatures. The Harry Potter books primarily focus on aspects of the Wizarding World on the British Isles, but other regions with known magical communities include France, Bulgaria, and the United States, among several others. The Wizarding World has its own mail service utilizing owls. The currency of the Wizarding World is in bronze, silver and gold coins called Knuts, Sickles and Galleons, respectively. Twenty-nine Knuts make a Sickle, and seventeen Sickles make one Galleon. Conversions between Muggle and Wizarding money do exist, but fanfic authors tend to ignore them and grossly under- or over-exaggerate the coins' values.
- The Wizarding World according to Z.P. Smith is a secluded to non-wizards, in which wizards live and interact with one another. It is unnoticeable by non-wizards due to certain charms and spells. It is very rare that wizards leave their world unless they are interacting with non-wizards. At times they do leave their world they are forbidden to expose it to anyone.
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