Entry 2 – a "Television"

These are really remarkable pieces of Muggle engineering. They appear to show other muggles talking to each other, and they can use it as a means of getting their news. Since I have noticed their newspapers don't work the same way ours do (their pictures are stationary) these devices seem to fill that void and provide moving pictures for them to watch. However, they are not the same as our moving pictures, for the motions are set and can be repeated over and over but will never do anything new. Fascinating how some Muggles can sit and watch the same motions over and over, telling stories the same way repeatedly and not get bored. Personally I find the constantly changing portrait of my great grandmother more entertaining, but there are so many wires inside its very interesting.

I will now proceed to dismantle the television and try and work out how they make the pictures work without the magic.

Lots of wires, very spectacular indeed. It seems, they must move behind the screen to make the different colours, maybe they are controlled by some kind of motor?

Molly doesn't like it and repaired it, then sent it back to the store in Ottery St Catchpole.