One Last Mith
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...most of them isn't useful for military purposes? Any one of them would have all the military forces in the world sell their first born children and their wives. No logictical problems, no supply lines, no need to care about enemy positions, instant retreat and all other things I can't bother to write about.
Again, it's not that easy. Many times, things like resisting mind controlling spells and potions is a biological effect. You can edit the minds of people a few times out of their lives and nothing is likely to go wrong. But if you start using mind control long term? Their body begins to adapt. Especially if they're willful. You MIGHT luck out and get someone whose particularly dull or uninterested in breaking that sort of mind control, but that can't account for a large population.
Eventually, that sort of mind control wears off. Especially if it introduces a lot of contradictions. There is even side-effects when it happens to muggles to often. They think they're a week ahead or behind where they actually are. They start acting oddly or have forgotten things. Worse is that in order to perform all those charms? You need to do it in-person or spike a drink or food. Wizards can handle isolated incidents because they attack key points where information bottle-necks.
An example is say, a giant attack.
First, try to cover the giant's attack by say, conjuring a storm. Most muggles will take cover, sheltering them from both the giant attack and reducing eye witnesses.
Second, you have agents who are prepositioned from the MoM within the information infrastructure of the UK. Newspapers, reporters, and other authority figures who approve or disapprove of certain stories. Sure, a few nosey reporters might slip through the cracks and start pursuing magical stories, but they would just look like nutcases or if they ever become dangerous, can be mind controlled to forget or obtain a new hobby.
Third, after you have limited witness exposure and cut off the spread of information, you send in a crew to clean up those who might have evidence or those local people whose testimony could not be ignored. In the end, people forget and move on.
I am talking about the magical problems bothering the mundane. Things like the time where a Giant attack was disguised as a hurricane etc. They clearly prevent and if they can not, cover them. Otherwise we would have Dementors and such creatures feasting on defenseless populaces.
Dementors are not natural magical creatures. I believe it was implied that they were unnatural wizard creations.
I could see it. When everything in the Wizarding world is better than computers we have before 2000s people don't bother looking for computers.
In fact that's the exact thing J.K said;
Yep, cultural. And that's okay.
Yea? It's a niche field. That's probably one of the reason why there is an economy in the Wizarding World. People are lazy and look for services that can do that kind of stuff. Though how hard it is debatable as we don't ever see how things like flying cars and such created. It could be as simple as waving a Flying charm or like you said individually charming each and every bolt. But still, my point about Wizards knowing about muggle technology and the fact that they have equivalent if not more advanced technology, be it magical or not.
Well we know that large concentrations of magic can interfere with technology. Possibly because the very laws that technology requires to function on are in flux. Now, that might not be much an of an issue for a muggle born wizard who has only a few magical items or spells going on at any given time, but for a more traditional wizard or those in more magically focused regions, it's about as useful as trying to listen to music with blue tooth buds next to a highway at peak hours. It's easier to just use a wire connection.
I can't really reply to this because...well I have outsider perspective to UK or US.
Outsider perspective on the UK as well, I'm mostly making conjecture based on what little I do know. But Rowling's understanding of our political landscape was horribly flawed and that translated into the work. That's why there is such a different level of effective analogy between her original works and the prequels, at least those set within the United States. It's also why her House system for America is terribly flawed.