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== [[Literature]] ==
* Zigzagged in ''[[Harry Potter]]''. In the canon, it looks like in [[The Magic Versus Technology War]], Magic always wins. For example, Muggle surgery was useless in ''[[Order of the Phoenix]]''. But in ''[[Goblet of Fire]]'', Harry mentioned that Muggle equipment would sometimes be useful. Hermione refuted it, but only because Hogwarts has a magic anti-technology field.<ref>It is rather vague as to what kind of technology the magical field permeating the Hogwarts grounds disrupts, given that plenty of optics, mechanics, chemistry, etc. are used throughout the stories without issue. E.g. fountain pens would probably work if no magical effect interfered with the plastics and elastics involved. The fact that a ''steam train'' operates in Hogwarts peripheries suggests anything less complex than transistor tech will operate without difficulty.</ref>
** According to [[Word of God|Lady Rowling]], "In a fight between a Muggle with a shotgun and a wizard with a wand, the Muggle will win." There are extremely long debates, some on this very wiki, about how far this goes, often starting with "What happens if the wizard is smart enough to hide and stick his wand out a window?" Of course, Mr. Dursley's shotgun was rather worthless against Hagrid, but Hagrid [[Unskilled but Strong| wasn't exactly using magic in that encounter]] and Dursley (being a coward) froze up instead of pulling the trigger
** This happens in-canon, of all places, too. These themes are usually downplayed, but still there. For example, in [[Goblet of Fire]], an owl is sent out. At least one day later, a letter is sent by Muggle post. The letter arrives that morning, and the owl arrives well after breakfast.
*** Also, when Mr. Weasley is in St. Mungo's, he and a young trainee healer decide to try closing up his wounds from his snakebite using stitches (which would allow him to go home and wait for them to come up with a full antidote without needing his bandages replaced regularly.). It doesn't work, the implied reason being that the snake's venom dissolved through them.
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