shoot them in the head!

I kinda want to join a non-HP game. But idek where to look to find games anymore. And my knowledge of most other fandoms is rather limited. :/

I need a new project. I've just spent so much time recently playing with things on my wiki, and working on updating bios and personalities and such for a few characters for a revamp of a game that's opening soonish (I hope!), that now that I'm done with those things, I feel at loose ends. I'm working on an icon set (Blake Lively in Elvis & Anabelle), but my wrist's been bugging me the last few days, so I can't do much mouse-work for very long without taking a break.

I need something new to work on or I'm gonna go crazy! D: I don't even care if it's just busy work that would have no real value, I just need something to work on.


(This is also why I'm suddenly posting more here about random things. xD Boredom does that to me.)

Why aren't wizards fat?

I mean, the HP-verse seems to tend toward a highly sedentary lifestyle. They have accio so they don't have to spend forever looking for something (and if they lose the TV remote -- if they even had tv, lol -- they could just accio it instead of having to get up and change the channels manually), and the one sport we really get to look at ... doesn't actually involve a great deal of physicality. Yes, the beaters most likely have pretty good upper body strength from using the bat to hit the bludgers around, but what about the rest of the team? The Keepers and Chasers are more on the hand-eye coordination (and throwing skillz for the Chasers), and the Seeker only has to be fast. Plus, it seems like the Quidditch players would be a relatively small portion of the population.

So ... why aren't more wizards overweight? I mean, there's the fitness nuts in any population of people, and the people who diet and work out like crazy just to be skinny, but .. what about the rest of the population? And with such a mostly-sedentary lifestyle, wouldn't the public opinion of "healthy weight" be something higher than what Hollywood shoves down our muggle throats? At the very least, I think it'd tend more toward wanting to be rounder, simply because that was historically a sign of wealth and prosperity and power and such: it's indicative of having enough food. And, with all the magic around and the seeming lack of muggle illnesses and such striking the wizards (and if they do get sick with muggle illnesses like the cold, it seems to be rather easily taken care of with magic), I have to wonder if they would have the same health problems associated with being overweight: heart problems, diabeetus, etc. I think the only real cross-over would be the extra strain on your joints from carrying around extra weight, but ... magic could easily help with that.


So why aren't wizards fat?