However, the main reason the wizarding world appears to shun computers and similar muggle devices is cultural. Ĭomputers are one of numerous devices that may not work in magical environments such as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry because they are powered by electricity.
It is possible that computers are a Muggle invention that cannot be fully duplicated with magic. A photograph at 4 Privet Drive depicted Dudley playing a computer game with his father and on his eleventh birthday in 1991, he received a new computer to replace the old one, as well as sixteen new computer games. The Dursleys owned a computer, which Dudley Dursley often played games on. A computer is a Muggle machine designed to interpret and carry out a string of operations inputted by the user, and is used to store receive and send information, as well as for recreation (e.g.
