[HPforGrownups] Re: Molly and Missing Weasley

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 37474

Edis quotes me (Eloise):

> > I think Arthur was concentrating on what at the time was most 
> important. It may not have occured to him that the news would reach 
> Molly before they did, as (as Barbara noted) they reached the Burrow 
> shortly after dawn. (The paper also got there jolly early!)
> > 
> Edis:
> This supposes there is no Wizards Radio News programme... and there 
> is indeed nothing in Canon to suggest there is such a thing. CoS does 
> however mention a Wizards Radio service, which Harry hears the first 
> time he is in Molly's kitchen. With an 'easy Listening' music show.
> 
> This 'radio' (presumably not run on electricity or other muggle 
> tricks)seems to be written out of later parts of Canon...
> 
> Also supposes there was no broadcast of the World Cup final for 
> wizards worldwide following Quiddich...  
> 

This was something I was aware of when I was writing. We don't hear a lot 
about the Wizarding Wireless Network, do we? 
This needn't be a problem, I think. The match was over well before the 
trouble started, so unless Molly was in the habit of listening to the 
wireless during the night, she needn't have been expected to have heard the 
news that way.
The thing that struck me after I had sent my last post though was that not 
only did the paper arrive very early, but Molly was up very early too, so she 
*could* have heard an early news broadcast.
The point remains the same, though. I don't think Arthur was expecting her to 
be up in the night or at the crack of dawn when she had had no reason to 
worry that anything was going to happen before they left.
 
But *is* the WWN written out of canon later? Let me check. (Rapid flick 
through GoF). No, here it is, in The Unexpected Task, 

'Exactly who or what the Weird Sisters were Harry didn't know, never having 
had access to a wizard's wireless, but he deduced from the wild excitement of 
those who had grown up listening to the WWN (Wizarding Wireless Network) that 
they were a famous musical group.'

It has always struck me as very odd that none of the students we know seems 
to have a wireless in their dormitory, although quite in keeping with the 
general lack of mention of other recreational pursuits in the books.

Eloise


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