Harry Potter question

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I was watching an episode of How It's Made and they were showing how they make a canvas over frame tent. So the question pops into my head of whether the tent in Harry Potter has a frame the size of what the tent looks like on the outside, or does it have a frame the size it appears on the inside? :lol

 

[annanake]

Both and neither . Like quantum physics . it's magic , dark magic .

 

[cboath]

I always likened it to the Tardis - bigger on the inside. The exterior shots were pup tents essentially, it's all magic

 

[Strikerkc]

Size of the exterior frame, you just shrink down when you go inside.

Make sure to use extra tent spikes, cause if it gets carried off by the wind while you're inside, you live a cursed and hellish existence at 1/8th your original size for the rest of your days. Relegated to children's rides at carnivals, stalked by birds of prey, and forever out of reach of the top cupboards.

The upside though, is one mug of butter beer will last you half a year.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Seriously? That's how it works? They just are smaller inside? I've only seen the movies so I have no idea.

 

[Strikerkc]

no. it's magic. don't look to heavily into harry potter to have lots of thinking put into how things are done; that's not JK's strong suit. it's 7 or 8 films/book populated by cardboard cut outs, wherein the hero accomplishes less than all those around him and is showered with praise regardless. The books were well written enough to get a lot of kids into reading, and the movies are pretty enough to be fun to watch. Don't expect the world to actually be flushed out and hook together in meaningful or understandable ways... least of all their camping equipment.

 

[cboath]

Wow, i guess hater's gonna hate then.

Those books are fantastic with deep plots, subplots, characters, etc.

 

[Dessa]

As for the original question...

It's an enchanted muggle tent. Therefore, the frame and outer canvas is the exact same as a normal muggle tent, it's the inside that's in a pocket dimension or something.

 

[Dreddful]

I just thought way too hard about this question. :lol

I tend to be on the "people shrink when they enter" side, myself.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

The engineer in me needs to know! :lol I'm assuming it works like Hermione's purse, and I can't see her arm shrinking when she's rooting around in there.

 

[thegnome]

Its probably just like the Millennium Falcon, the proportions of it change or its simply just magic.