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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Harry Potter]I was raised among Muggles and recently graduated Hogwarts. To what degree can I use my God like magical powers to gain wealth and power in the Muggle world before the ministry steps in, if I prevent Muggles from finding out about magic and are not flaying or mind controlling people?

The Ministry seems to have a terrible understanding of the Muggle world.  If you don't flay people with magic or mind control or mug them, would the Ministry notice or care? There are countless ways you could use magic to seemingly make an "honest" dollar without actually robbing or hurting anyone.

**BONUS QUESTION!** What are some great ways to use magic to accrue create wealth without robbing anyone or getting caught?
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The Ministry doesn't understand the Muggle world because they don't give a rat's ass about it\*. You can pretty much do what you like, provided you don't break the masquerade. Hell, you could probably get away with Imperiusing a few of them if you really want to - in the unlikely event of you getting caught, just claim they were coming at you with some of those mechanical wands the Muggles use, and you felt threatened.

I'd say you can lie, cheat, steal, obliviate, find some clever way to cheat at high-stakes poker, use a Time Turner to give yourself the winners of a horse race or other sporting event (note: Do not get caught in possession of a Time Turner. They will put you in a box, and then put that box in a box, and then stick that box up a Dementor's butt).

One thing you **don't** want to do, though, is sell them illusory or transfigured goods to turn a profit. That's technically placing magical artefacts in Muggle hands, and that's one of the few intersections between Them and Us that the Ministry does care about.

\*I mean, a rat's ass can be used in several different alchemical recipes. Would you give up a potentially useful potion ingredient just to find out more about this "electrickery" nonsense?