Tink-Tink-Tink!

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "(Mrs.) Lee Storm (God is the
Healing Force)" <n2fgc at a...> wrote:

<< A: I'd see if Flourish And Blots has audible text books (Braille
would take up too much space.) >>

I feel *certain* that the wizarding folk have a spell to cast on a
book to make it read itself aloud, or a magical artifact to place on a
book to read it aloud, or several spells and artifacts for the
purpose. Because they would have set out very long ago to invent such
things, because of having so much need for them. Not just for blind
people, but for illiterate people, and to read to a group, like having
someone read the daily newspaper aloud to the cigar makers to keep
them entertained while their eyes and hands were busy.

In addition, it seems that there is recorded music in the wizarding
world, because my recollection of Quidditch Through the Ages is that 
the section on Puddlemere United says that Celestina Warbeck recently
recorded their fight song as a fund-raiser for St. Mungo's. It just
doesn't make sense to me that there's recorded music in the wizarding
world but no one has *ever* played Harry a record of the most popular
band of wizarding youth, the Weird Sisters. Not even during a
Hogsmeade visit.