Fiction and entertainment in the wizarding world

[catorman]

No: HPFGUIDX 31135

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jenett <gwynyth at d...> wrote:
> At 4:29 PM +0000 12/8/01, trucoolsg wrote:
> >I agree, I like this about the books too. Also, to clear up an
> >earlier point suggesting that life at British/European boarding
> >school must be boring if it is without TV's and videos...this is 
not
> >the case now, most boarding schools have a television in their 
common
> >rooms, as far as I'm aware!!
> 
> Question is, though, how often that TV gets used.
> And when the TV did go on the blink, as it did a couple of times, 
it 
> wasn't a big crisis in anyone's life - we all found other things to 
> do. (Hang out, play cards, work on a project, go to the library, 
> whatever)
> 
> If that wasn't a big deal for kids from families where many of them 
> had had TVs in their rooms by that point, I can't see it really 
being 
> a major issue at Hogwarts, especially when a fair portion of the 
> student population (the kids from wizarding families). 


I think you are right, in that the wizarding families wouldn't miss 
something they've never had - if they've never had it.  However, it 
is by no means certain that they don't have some form of TV at home.  
Afterall, they have the Wizarding Wireless don't they?  That brings 
me on to another point - how is it no one takes a Wizarding Wireless 
to Hogwarts?  D'you think they have a sports channel which everyone 
would be glued to on a Saturday afternoon so they can listen to live 
commentaries of their Quidditch team's matches?  Also, what about 
listening to their favourite groups such as the Weird Sisters?  Do 
groups such as these sell some kind of Wizarding World CD?  Do the 
students only get to listen to their favourite bands during the 
holidays?  What about classical music?  I'm pretty sure that these 
are the kind of things the students would miss.  

I'm assuming that they don't have wirelesses at school, because the 
concept was new to Harry when he visits the Weasleys' home for the 
first time - after his first year at Hogwarts.

Catherine