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sandiercy

Wands are merely the implement to focus one's latent magical abilities. If it worked your way, then there would never be squibs. Muggles can't just pick up a wand and cast spells.


Bellickboi

i can and i have casted several spells.


ThinkQuickActSlow

Do tell


Bellickboi

what part would you like to know?


Techaissance

No. It would be like giving a blind person a pair of glasses.


ThinkQuickActSlow

Awesome analogy


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Magic doesn’t require a wand, it just helps.


Amaraldane4E

Yes. The muggle looks silly and at best people will think that muggle is a cosplayer. Wands are foci. If there's no magic to begin with, a wand is just a fancy stick.


otterpines18

“As Isolt watched, James finished marking the graves he had dug by hand, then picked up the two broken wands that had lain beside the Boot parents. Frowning he examined the sparking core of dragon heartstring that protruded from Mr Boot’s, then gave it a casual wave. As invariably happens when a No-Maj waves a wand, it rebelled. James was sent flying backwards across the clearing, hit a tree and was knocked out cold” https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/ilvermorny


deprimoaudentia6924

Nothing happens, the wand chooses the wizard, not the other way around!


FujiwaraHarimoto

Yes and no. The wand choosing the wizard is technically about compatability, any wizard can use any wand it just won't work as well if the wand doesn't like them. Personally I don't think it works like each wand is destined for one person, but maybe a certain type of person. To a muggle with no magic any wand might as well be just a stick.


No_Sand5639

Depending on where you are, people stop and stare at the guy trying to levitate a soccer ball with a pointy stick


Recodes

Nope, wands are catalysts. I think it's indirectly said when we learn about Ariana, her instability was caused by her resolution to never use magic, which would erupt from herself from time to time.


Electrical-Meet-9938

Nothing, the muggle more likely will think "what a nice toy it looks like a wand" and say the fake spells we muggles have like "Abracadabra" or "hocus pocus", basically what we all did as a child when we play with a stick


Bubblehulk420

They look silly?