Searching the library

[Allyse at my-deja.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22481

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Matthew Dawdy" <matt.dawdy at g...> wrote:
> It happens when anyone in the books
> spends hours pulling down volumes and searching through them by 
hand.  I
> can't help but think that Hogwart's could be improved by an online 
search
> engine.  I know computers and such do not work there, but there has 
got to
> be a magic parchment that knows the library like the MM knows the 
grounds of
> Hogwart's.

Matt, the same question occurred me to long ago! That was before I 
happily discovered this group and was patronizing the alt.fan.h-p 
newsgroup. I started a thread that I couldn't resist calling "Ask 
Peeves," but alas, no one seemed to come up with a decent answer.

One person did suggest that Madam Pince is the type of librarian who 
dislikes people touching her books; the foreword to QTTA seems to 
agree with that assessment. Perhaps the Librarian in UU on the 
Discworld would agree too. :) But it doesn't satisfy me. This isn't 
just *any* library, it's a *school* library! As such, there ought to 
be some kind of catalog in place. Even if it's just the equivalent of 
the Dewey Decimal system rather than a charm that sends your wand 
whizzing off to touch books with the pertinent information, there 
ought to be *something*.

Allyse