Music, is it important in HP?

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1064

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:

> ...Dumbledore seems to know that music is a powerful type of magic 
> Examples- In CoS Harry seems to be in a situation that is not very
> hopeful until the arrival of the Pheonix, AND the Pheonix Song.  

As far as the magic of music, I'll just sit back and let JKR surprise 
me. She always does, even when I try to figure out what is going on.

But I keep saying (and Ron keeps not hearing me!) that the best way 
for Ron to solve his problem of wanting to succeed at something 
that his brothers haven't done yet is for him to take up either music 
or drawing. And playing a portable instrument while singing does 
more for one's popularity as a guest at parties than sketching quick 
life-like portraits of the other guests.

The Weird Sisters play 'a set of drums, several guitars, a lute, a 
cello and some bagpipes.' They are 'all extremely hairy, and dressed 
in black robes that had been artfullu ripped and torn.' Species and 
gender of the musicians? Genre of the music?

I might as well repeat my dislike of the wizarding broadcasting 
service calling itself Wizarding Wireless Network. Radio is only 
called wireless because it came after telegraph, which used wires. 
Wizarding broadcasting (what would it be called, as it isn't radio?) 
presumably came after spellegraph, but spellegraph does not use wires 
(as the inventory of spellegraph, I feel strongly about this!). It 
originally used ley lines, but soon was improved to do without them.