[HPforGrownups] Wizard Internet: A Nice Tidbit to Ponder

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 15954

At 03:08 PM 4/4/01 +0000, rainy_lilac at yahoo.com wrote:
>Oh Jo!! I love it when you toss these "You will find out why later in
>the series..." into the air! So what do people think? How do Wizards
>surf? Maybe since they get their mail by owl or Parrot or whatnot
>there is a little network of sparrows and doves flying and fetching
>other info??

Since Wizards travel by floo, communicate in a "Web-Cam"-like
manner with floos, and evem refer to the "Floo *Network*", I think
it was to do with floos.  Maybe the fireplace is Wizard "hardware"
and the fire and floo powder is Wizard "software"...

Harry: (Presents a tin canister to Ron)  Merry Christmas, Ron!

Ron: What is it?

Harry: It's "Virtual Veela 2.0" -- Toss the powder into the
             fire, and you can have your own virtual reality bevy
             of dancing Veela!

Ron: All right!  Here's one for you Harry!  (Hands him another canister)

Harry: (Reads the title) "Judith the Jaunty Teaches the Secrets of the
              Hungarian Seekers"...  Wow!  Thanks, Ron!  I was getting so
              bored steamrollering through your Chudley Cannons emulation
              program.

Ron: Shall we try these out?  Hermione, can we use the fireplace now?

Hermione: Not now -- I'm in the middle of "Tutorials on Second-Order
                  Differential Arithmancy, Level III"...

Ron: Come on, Hermione!   You know my fireplace is an old clunker
           from the strone age whereas yours has a Pentium 4 hearth,
           128 megabytes of EDO mantlepiece, and high-speed
           support for Apertus-Gamma-Lamda 3D Runes!

Hermione: (Disgustedly)  Men...



                                                 -- Dave