Harry Potter: Alternative Ending

Published: 19th May 2007

You know how the characters in Harry Potter are always banging on about muggles, and how we're so inadequate we have to use technology, to make up for not having magic?

Well, wouldn't it be funny if it turned out that magic is actually heuristic nano-technology, sent back in time from the distant future to the middle-ages, and originally invented by us!

It'd be like, Ha! Who's the fucking muggles now?

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