Is Magic Getting WEAKER Over Time? - Harry Potter Theory

I always chopped it up to complacency/lazieness. Like most of the spells the Wizarding world has can solve most of their problems. They can cure most non magical illnesses and injuries, they can reproduce food, teleport, summon stuff to them. Their cauldrons are self stirring, they can repair most stuff with magic. Studying new spells and potions is risky, and right now a basic understanding of magic is enough for most to live comfortable lives. So because of this, magical advancement is slow or heavily guarded. Like dumbledore discovered most of dragon blood uses, meaning magic knowledge is still advancing. For most wizards, the risk of pushing the known limits isn’t worth it.

I wouldn't say magic is getting weaker imo, but techniques are being forgotten. I liken it to how the method of creating Roman concrete was forgotten for centuries in our world. Leading concrete produced in later periods to be vastly inferior.

It seems more as if KNOWLEDGE is being lost. Think about it - the Hallows, the Philosopher's stone, all are constructed, MADE by witches/wizards. And the protection magic that Lily gave to Harry, was likely manipulated, and expanded upon, by Dumbledore, to include Petunia's home.

They should practice wandless in school and make it mandatory

I disagree. Magic is largely as strong as it's ever been. The reason modern magic seems weaker is that over thousands of years you're going to have more opportunities for exceptional wizards than just in the current generation alone. And magic that is exceptional and not mundane is going to be the magic that is chronicled and preserved and magic artifacts that are mundane and easy to reproduce are more likely to get discarded

I'd say it is more like they have become dependent on going things the easy way. I mean how many of them take the time to invent spells or find new ways of doing things? A muggle example would be like not long ago everyone made their own bread almost every day. How many people do that now? I mean many people have never even tasted homemade bread let alone made it.

The weakening of magic over time could be a competency crisis too, and lack of proper documentation on how to perform it, and the most powerful magic being kept secret, censored or forgotten. Another possibility is that magic gets weaker as it gets passed down through the generations, like how in certain vampire lore each new generation of vampire is slightly weaker than the previous one; which could be the real reason why the pure blood wizarding families are so obsessed with staying pure blooded to slow down the process.

The ministry of magic and wizard law probably has had a hand on weakening magic over time. The ministry would probably punish any wizard that tried to get too powerful or make some sort of powerful artifact and prevent general information and knowledge from getting about

Has centuries of institutionalized bureaucratic magical education, and the Statute of Secrecy put a damper on creative innovation of powerful magic?

I like the rational of the reliance of wands being part of it. In a way I feel like wands might be something that would in a way shriek the sort of "skill gap" or power range of people who attempt to do magic. Like for example maybe witches/wizards who have major talent and affinity for using magic are actually underachieving by relying on wands as much as they are, while at the same time, some witches/wizards are able to do better in the magical world because of wands, and without them they would've never personally seemed to be all that magical outside of some rare cases like when they get emotional and make something happen.

Magic is not getting weaker I think if we look at magic like how we look at people with natural born gifts and talents in the real world some people are just naturally better at something’s than others it doesn’t mean that they are stronger it means they have a greater affinity to certain talents than others do which can help answer the question to this video ..

When I say the title of this vid, my immediate thought was has he been indulding in TYPE-MOON content?

I would say it isn't getting weaker but less imagination is had. Wizards turned to potions and the like as they could make money off them. Not to mention wizards are limited in ways. They have spells they are better at than other people, They no longer try to make better or more powerful spells. That the old spells can still be used means they aren't getting weaker but are no longer trying to advance spell casting.

I have a theory that the reason some magic artifacts (such as the elder wand) can't be recreated is because magic will only allow one to exist. There's only one perfect invisibility cloak because its creator couldn't create more.

I would also add that Magic may be getting weaker because witches and wizards are in hiding from the muggle world. Unlike ancient wizards and witches who exist alongside muggles and practice magic freely, modern day Magic users now need to hide and slightly suppress their abilities so that muggles don’t notice. I think this hampers wizards and witches abilities to reach their true potential unlike the witches and wizards of old. The other factor that we might want to take into account is time itself. Old Magic is more powerful, and we know that witches and wizards get more powerful with age. So it makes you wonder if modern day spells are weaker because they have not aged as long compared to ancient magic to be as significant. Just a thought, though.

JKR hinted at this through the books, and it pointed toward genetics and inbreeding (think of the Gaunts). She made a comment about the Potters once, where she stated that they didn't do that, and even married witches from the continent. None were close blood relations within the Potters' marriages. Harry's great-grandmother was a Fleamont, who was, probably, French. She knew about the European aristocracy's problems over this very thing, and the health problems it caused.

I don't think the individual person is getting magically weaker. The average witch or wizard doesn't care to seek power to that degree, at least not in the 20th century

Brilliantly done x

❤ Awesome as always thanks

Maybe magic gets stronger with time. The new magic now will be incredibly strong in 1000 years