Harry Potter as a child was almost painful because it was so close being in our universe and yet so far. Possibly there were wizards and witches in our midst and only through vast conspiracy of magic were we ignorant of the possibilities. And yet now I look at them and think: Wow, we are definitely kicking their asses. If I had a choice today to be born either a witch or a Muggle, I would pick Muggle any day of the week.

That's not to say they still are way ahead of us in some fields. We can't physically control people like the Imperius Curse, use a Memory Charm to wipe their minds, teleport from one location to another, remove every bone in a person's body and then regrow it with a nasty potion. We can't do any of that shit.

But let's look at what we got. First off, they are still on the radio. They don't have televisions or movies. All of that culture we got is completely nonexistent for them. You can say they have photography that is more lifelike than ours, but I have never seen them in the series use it in a similar manner to a TV series or a movie.

Then we have the internet. That alone I think just completely knocks down anything the Wizarding World has to offer. Okay, Owl Post? Fuck that shit, we have emailing, texting, blogging... We can get the message out and fast. Remember how long it took Sirius to respond to Harry's letter in The Goblet of Fire? Yeah, he would've gotten it instantaneously if he were a Muggle.

Then there's just the sheer mass of information we can share with one another. For god's sake, they're still dependent on magazines and newspapers for anything. Right now I can pull up tens of thousands of articles in any major language just from Google News alone. In fact, I have a tab open about the train crash in Spain written in German. Wizards couldn't fucking imagine doing that.

Look at their damned currency system. If the rest of the world is complaining that we're still on the imperial system of measurement, at least it's still 100 cents to the dollar. That's easy to compute and convert. Forget 29 Knuts to a Sickle, 17 Sickles to a Galleon. That's 493 Knuts for 1 Galleon. That's a pain in the fucking ass. And I love what Hagrid said after he explained this all: "It's easy enough." No, not it is not, and I don't know how you thought that is other than you've lived in a delusion your whole life.

And our banking is far superior to theirs because of, again, our fast communications. As far as I can tell, they don't even come close to the telegraph system. I've seen the use the Floo Network, but that only works within Great Britain and isn't good for anything international. Harry had that mirror with Sirius, but I doubt that works extremely long distances.

Then we just have the fucking atom bomb. Oh great, you have Avada Kedavra? We can literally wipe a city off the face of this earth. In fact, if we use it enough we can wipe us all off the face of this earth. Yeah, it's just like your cute little basilisk there. You need to up the efficiency for killing people.

I'm actually surprised a lot of our innovations haven't crossed over. You'd think some enterprising Muggle Born would realize there's a good business opportunity and no competition.