History & Overview of the Harry Potter Universe
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UPDATED: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 18:15
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In prehistoric times, a benevolent mutation spread among humanity. This mutation was a gene complex that enabled people to mentally access and control certain energies and entities from dimensions tangential to our own. Because these other dimensions possess physical laws that are tremendously different from our own, the manipulation of the extradimensional forces gave these people the ability to perform a variety of acts and displays that not only defied the universal laws of physics, but also manipulated and altered many aspects of reality on a fundamental level. Although compared to the scope of the entire universe, it was within a relatively microscopic and localized area. This is the source of the phenomenon that is called magic.
The existence of the Neanderthals is the evolutionary pressure that caused the "magic gene complex" to evolve in Homo sapiens. Humans won out and the Neanderthals died out when modern man appeared on the scene because many humans had magic, while not a single Neanderthal possessed that gift. With no spells or wand of usage the magic of these primitive magic wielders manifested their abilities rather subtly, it appeared as frequent cases of good luck or happy accidents. However, some of these people acquired some rudimentary control over their power--enough to aid in the hunt and in causing or curing various simple maladies. With this advantage; Homo sapiens was able to supercede the Neanderthal and flourish; driving the less fortunate primitives out.
For a long time, humans of magical stock had a significant place within most societies. The data for this can be found in our ancient texts; including the Bible, Qur'an, Talmud, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of the Dead, etc. During this time, some magic wielders used magic to perform biological experiments on both humans and animals that permanently altered the DNA of these creatures. These experiments led to the existence of giants, goblins, centaurs, trolls, dragons and all the other magical beings and beasts of the world.
It is because of social pressure that the magic gene complex, which is so vital to our past, receded to the small population we see today. An actively anti-thaumaturgical mindset spread across the world, into various cultures for various reasons. People who manifested magical abilities were hunted down and eliminated. Only people who had somehow learned to suppress their abilities survived (magic manifest itself around the age of puberty, if training is withheld during this critical period the ability can never thereafter be fully developed or controlled).
Eventually it was discovered that wood is a magically imbued material. This is because in addition to harnessing sunlight, the photosynthetic process also has a resonating quantum effect that slightly augments the special protein structure that witches and wizards possess. Using the unique properties of wood, the first magic wands were created. Wands function as a "magic focuser". In the same way a convex glass can focus sunlight enough to create a small fire, a wand focuses the magical potential of its user, not necessarily increasing the magic power, just making it more intense. The development of the magic wand allowed for the first time the controlled and reliable applications of magic. This was as much a disaster for the thaumaturgically inclined as the anti-magical factions of humanity - now the magically inclined had a clear and decided advantage over the non-magical or "Muggles" as they came to be known to the "wizarding world", and these Muggles now had a powerful political and economic incentive to hunt down and eliminate the magical. Eventually those with the magic gene complex declined in number.
Shortly after the discovery of the wand, many magical people began exiling themselves from the Muggle world, forming small and isolated magical communities. With the increasing reliance among Muggles on scientific reasoning, the break between the wizarding and Muggle worlds became more and more complete. Each culture went on to create
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