[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Malfoys' House Elves

[Amber]

--- catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amber <reanna20 at y...> wrote:
> > I get nervous about the idea of magic responding to letters. It
> > just doesn't seem like something I would trust to magic to get
> > correct. I can see trained House-Elf scribes. Or the Malfoys hiring
> > out some witch/wizard to handle their correspondence. 
>
> How different is this from the automated replies we can get online?

The email program doesn't read the email it gets, does it? It doesn't
look inside the messages to see what's in them and then decide how they
should be answered. To some extent email can be "sorted" automatically
into folders, but that's just from the subject line. The actual email
can be something totally different.

I know, sounds silly eh? I don't know, if I were a witch I'd just feel
better having a live being (or better yet, ME) looking at my mail,
sorting it, generating replies depending on the content. I just
wouldn't be able to "trust" the magic that much. (I know, I'm insane,
just ignore me...)

~Amber
(Who doesn't use the automated reply function anyways...)


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