And HP families Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Politics, using fandom, and The Leaky Cauldron site

[Dina Lerret]

Combining three posts.

Przemyslaw Plaskowicki said:
[snip]
> I can not vouch for every country in the EU, but at least in Poland
> (and I believe in other EU members with compulsory national ID cards)
> you need to register only when you are living in the place different
> than specified on your ID card.  Nevertheless, maybe people need to
> register in the UK, since UK does not have compulsory ID cards.

Hm, last I was aware in Florida/US voting, you needed your signed voter ID
and photo ID with your signature on it (e.g. drivers license) and your
residence must match what's on your card or you'll need to apply for a new
card.  I pulled up my recently revised (change in school board districts)
voter ID:
http://archive.nu/bunniqula/images/flvoteid.jpg

...Because of those saying they couldn't vote at seventeen.  My date of
registration was the day after my 17th birthday and then I remembered
there was a 'pre-registration' before the legal age of eighteen.


carolynwhite2 said:
[snip]
> Essentially, to be accepted on the Electoral Register you have to be:
> - a British citizen, resident at a UK address
> - over 16 (although you cannot actually vote at any election until
> you are 18)

I find it interesting that folks in the UK finalize mandatory education at
sixteen, yet still can't vote until they're eighteen.


linda williams said:
>
> >Dina Lerret <redina at silverbloom.net> wrote:
> >Some days, I'm curious what it could've been like to be in a family that
> >didn't constantly fight. {g}

>    They have families like that somewhere??  LOL

Hm, it's an ideal. {chuckle}

The Grangers, maybe?  Possibly the Potters and Longbottoms, although one
is 'pushing up the daisies' and the other is a 'few French fries short of
a Happy Meal'.

It seems the HP books have varying degrees of dysfunctional families:
Dursley, Black, Riddle, Crouch, Weasley... just to name some--it's
possible to include DE families

Going back to the Grangers, both have professions that can fund vacations
and their child's education, not divorced, they're accepting of a witch as
a daughter, allow their child to stay in the care of others and the family
seems to generally have good communication (e.g. Hermione writing to say
she made prefect).  As much as Hermione is an over-achiever, she
essentially displays a good nature.  Plus, she didn't have sibling
rivalry.

Color me envious. {g}

Dina