[HPforGrownups] Internet in Hogwarts

[heidit at netbox.com]

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Jkr has said in an interview that at Hogwartd they have something similar in use to the internet, but different.

However, I want to point out that when Hermione went home over the Christmas hols in PS/SS, the likelihood of her hopping on the internet and typing in Flamel's name and getting anything - evenif she was trying for a bizarre longshout, would've been anachronistic, as in 1991, the internet as we know it did not exist. Really, iirc, the penetration of the internet in the uk only vaguely resembles what it is now in 1995 or even 1997 - and 95 is where we are now, at the end of GoF.

Heidi Tandy
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----Original Message----

From: "rosie" <crana at ntlworld.com>
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Internet in Hogwarts
Real-To:  "rosie" <crana at ntlworld.com>

Cindy wrote:

> I was also thinking just the other day that it seems that
> we "muggles" seem to be doing just fine without magic considering
> that if we were at school and wanted to find out who a certain
person
> was like Harry, Ron, and Hermione were looking for Nicholas Flamel,
> we would just have to get on a computer and look it up on the
> internet. It seems strange that we have such a good resource when
it
> took them forever to find it.

Yeh, I thought that too. Maybe there *is* a spell you can perform that looks up information or some such but the students don't know it yet... maybe such wizarding technology does exist but is not available to these students because it would enable plagiarism or mean that the restricted section couldn't be restricted or something. Or maybe it was just convenient that it didn't exist, for the Gillyweed episode too.

Rosie
If I was a Hogwarts student, I'd want a Quick-Homework-Quill!


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