[HPFGU-OTChatter] Need FanFic Help - Deep South

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 10:13 AM -0500 7/3/03, Terry James wrote:
>   A saucer of lemons would be
>on the side; Harry could have several, since he likes them.

If the tray has iced tea and lemon on the side, it will also have a 
small glass with sprigs of mint in it.


>Also on the
>tray would probably
>be cloth napkins (NEVER paper) but no sugar; real southern iced tea has so
>much sugar in it already that you could pour it on pancakes if you ran out
>of syrup.

Class break: a plantation owner's iced tea will probably *not* 
already be sweetened.  This is one of the fast ways of telling New 
Money from Old Blood in the South.  There will be a china sugar bowl 
on the tray with a silver sugar spoon in it, and the sugar spoon will 
match the iced tea spoons.  (If the tea were already sweetened, you 
wouldn't get to use your great-grandmother's sugar spoon.)


>Note that if the owner would probably call the elves "elf", like Crouch,
>much
>like real slave-owners called their slaves "boy" and "girl", no matter their
>ages.
>He probably can't be bothered to learn their names, and thinks "they all
>look alike anyway."

This would likely be true for the field hands, but probably not for 
the house-servants.  Those were usually addressed by first name.
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