Hello lions, eagles, snakes and badgers! Welcome back to my weird, wizarding channel - I am
your friendly neighbourhood Slytherin, Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the ways
in which Harry Potter Predicted the Future! Because actually, it really really did. Before
I get into the nitty gritty detail, I want you to let me know what your Patronus is and
what area of Harry Potter magic you wish was real! I for one would LOVE to be able to apparate
so you know, fingers crossed one day! So like the great Divination professor Trelawney,
JK Rowling made some pretty accurate future predictions as she described the magic world
of Harry Potter here are a few magical things us muggles have managed to make happen!
Self Driving Cars In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Ron and Harry steal Mr Weasleys enchanted Ford Anglia car that has the magic ability
to drive itself.Oh, and it can also fly, but we will get to that. Self driving cars were
rolled out for testing on public roads in 2015. Uber uses self driving cars in Pittsburgh,
USA! In 2017, Audi claimed to be the first company to reach a level 3 autonomous car,
allowing passengers to travel at speeds of 60 kilometres an hour. Now for the flying.
Yes, it is just starting to happen! Dutch company PalV Liberty have developed a cart
that can fly at 180 kilometres an hour so no worries if you miss the Hogwarts Expresswhich
really is just a muggle train with a good array of snacks and a disciplinary witch!
Skype JK Rowling had a run on skype waaaay before
it came about in 2003! In the The Goblet of, which was released in 2000, Harry and his
uncle Sirius chat via the Floo Network, which really is a more dramatic skype! Skype for
muggles is easier than the Floo network, too�.as you can connect anywhere and with anyone so
long as you have internet.
Harry Potter for sure predicted Moving Pictures in News Stories and even home phot albums.
These days, iPhones have live capture, so pictures are moving images. On global news
sites, moving pictures are regularly used with news titles, and technology has been
developed to allow people to display moving digital pictures in their homes if they want
to. Cool!
Cooler still, we have Self Moving Chess these days.
Granted it might not be as cool as Wizards chess, but it is pretty awesome that we can
now play chess without having to move the pieces. While this sounds like a gimmick,
it means you can play chess online with someone across the world but with a physical chess
board so you can actually see physical pieces. In a way, that is better than Wizards chess!
Although this self moving chess board by Square Off does need to get a bit more savage.in
my opinion, anyway.
Another one for a Weasley Family Christmas, we have Self Shuffling Playing Cards! Who
needs magic when you have an electronic dealer. Anything wizards can do with magic, us Muggles
can do with electricity. So thaaar!
Marauders Map! In Harry Potter, Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot
and Prongs created the Marauders map to help them get up to no good in the Hogwarts grounds,
but these days GPS makes the world one big Marauders Map! If you turn on your location
in I message your friends can see where you are in the world. Privacy issues aside, it
is wholly possible for each person with a GPS connected device to share their location
and create one giant global marauders.
Taking it to a serious place for one second, but even ahead of 9/11, JK Rowling predicted
Modern day terrorism. Voldemorts Death Eaters terrorise the Quiddich
world cup in a way that was reasonably alien to the world when The Goblet of Fire came
out in the year 2000. Since then, we have seen more horrendous terrorist atrocities
at public entertainment events, including the Bataclan in Paris, on an evening which
a suicide bomb was also detonated at the Stade de France.
Taking it back to a happier place, Harry Potter predicted the Invisibility Cloak!
In 2015, Scientist Hao Xin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the
University of Arizona created a 3D printed material that bends light in a process called
Negative Refraction, which means it effectively disguises what it touches. Xin thinks that
in his life time, we could create full scale invisibility cloaks and even invisible material
big enough to disguise military planes. Now all we need is a philosophers stone for eternal
life!
Finally, for now anyway, JK Rowling kinda predicted of Howlers- Okay, we arent totally
there yet in terms but you can send glitter bombs
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