Magic/Technology/Susan Cooper [somewhat OT] (was: Separation from Muggles

Peg Kerr pkerr06 at attglobal.net
Sun Dec 3 04:56:07 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 6322

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, morine10 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated Fri, 1 Dec 2000  1:42:07 AM Eastern Standard 
Time, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> writes:

> Magic can't solve everything, I think we have learned that.  I
>don't know how easy it would be to charm computers and Muggle 
>technology since we know that they tend not to work all that well in 
>the presence of magic. 

This is somewhat OT: I took my girls to the library today and 
while there picked a copy of Susan Cooper's _The Boggart_.  What I've 
gathered from the jacket flap is that it's about a family who picks
up a boggart (by which Cooper seems to mean a prankster spririt, a 
sort of Robin Good character) but the family has mistakenly taken it 
back across the Atlantic.  So now the boggart is in the States and 
trying to figure out (and use for its pranks) electricity and 
computers.

Anybody read this?  I have not read Cooper's work although I 
understand her to be well respected--She's won the Newbery Award.

Peg





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