Wizard Exercise/Entertainment

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No: HPFGUIDX 31158



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "sonjahric" <sonjahric at y...> wrote:

> I have noticed that wizards shun muggle activities even when they 
> don't have a good alternative.  Ie. - wizard kids don't ride bikes. 
> Well, they ride brooms, but they can't do that everywhere. Wouldn't 
> a bike be fun too!  The lake is frozen solid in winter, but they  
> don't seem to ice skate.  Why not?  If it is just b/c it is a
> muggle activity, why don't they have something comparible.  They do 
> have snowball fights and that is something muggles do.  (Just a few 
> of the examples that have been bugging me.)

Well, Peeves did play tennis (albeit he was playing against a wall) 
in PS/SS so I think that wizards/witches do actually have Muggle 
activites just that Harry hasn't come across them yet, or perhaps, he 
was just so used to seeing Muggle activities that he didn't think it 
necessary to say anything about them. Exploding Snap, Canary Creams, 
Wizard Chess are stuff he didn't experience in the Muggle world so he 
would definitely find them more interesting than say, Monopoly? 
Though I would give an arm to see an enchanted version of Monopoly.. 

And television and radio sets won't work at Hogwarts since as 
Hermione said that there is simply too much magic at Hogwarts for 
Muggle stuff to work properly.


--siew.