More questions (was A bit of confusion (was: Slambooks at Hogwarts)

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No: HPFGUIDX 822

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I;ve wondered this myself, also about the clothes, JKR says that the 
Wesley children were muggle clothes during the chsoolholidays - where 
do they get them from and why? And Also - you know the generic wizard 
on the back of PS, well, he is wearing trousers - so why do the 
students run around in (what essentially are) long dresses. where are 
the pokects? why do they carry back packs (such a modern invention 
and such a contrast to their clothes and pens) and how does Krum sign 
the parchment that Ron hands him at the end of GoF - I've used a 
quill and you really are desk bound (or at least ink pot bound) - Is 
Ron carrying around an ink pot in his pockets too? All these 
questions, so may things. I guess in one way its a testiment to JKR's 
writing that the stories seem so real to me that these details are 
important

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"Kaitlin " <ReinaKata02 at y...> wrote:
> >>I'm trying to picture what magical properties it might have.  A
> >>Truth Pen (forget the tact!) for example.
> 
> It would probably be called an "Anti-Lying Quill," knowing how JKR 
> names things. :)
> Which leads me to the following question:  Why do the people at 
> Hogwarts use quills, ink and parchment if they are in the twentieth 
> century?  Just curious.
> 
> ~Kaitlin