I don't know, I feel like witches and wizards deliberately keep themselves ignorant of muggle technology in a 'look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power' sort of way. Why have plumbing when you can just vanish your excrement? It would definitely make for a cool story, but wizards getting to mars without needing to use any sort of modern science or technology would be much cooler imo.

 

That is pretty easy to do and would be honestly more interesting than canon, where they adapt things at random a few decades behind or about that, it just hits the issue of being so different you need to make it all up.

Only if they commit to it and eschew all muggle technology, no exceptions whatsoever. Anything a muggle could reasonable make, or method they could make use of, (before wizards) is not acceptable.

Which I admit I am having trouble with in practice. Language I guess illusions and talking mind-to-mind with made-up scenes and tweaked memories sorta works? A child getting to that point is when they are considered a real wizard presumably. But what about objects and buildings? Obviously near all of those wouldn't be acceptable so would wizards just have their wands and are supposed to do everything through them, with a block of conservatives that think this 'wand' thingy is too muggle but the sheer disparity of efficacy keeps them a tiny niche group.

A good chunk of wizards would be seen as magical creatures/races in canon HP because they think it unacceptable to share such a similar body to muggles and the various different strands of thoughts go about it in a myriad different ways(including obviously the 'murder them all' ones). Probably a large overlap with the anti-wand block since additional abilities would narrow the gap.

Something like potions might still exist and looked upon very poorly, but the uses are too tempting so there is a black market those exist in.

You know what that does sound pretty damn cool. Also very very hard to consider everything that would be disqualified, I ended up going along the lines of 'look back six thousand years ago and anything close to what humans already had back then' but left wands in because they are so useful hypocrisy would let them become dominant. For more out there settings just remove that too and/or go even further with wizards magically altering themselves.

 

I once read a fic where Harry receives a vision of the end of the world and spends years trying to convince wizardkind they need to leave Earth. He gathers a following and begins developing the charms needed for interstellar travel. They build a space ship that they sit on top of two gigantic broomsticks and leave Earth. The sequel turned into a Star Wars crossover -_-

 

Just had an amusing idea where canon Harry wakes up in a wBWL universe filled with all the tropes and cliches and his reactions to it all.

I’m actually surprised more people haven’ done more like that. Canon Harry finding himself in tropey genre fics.