Internet in Hogwarts

[archeaologee]

No: HPFGUIDX 40918

(heidi tandy) wrote:
> 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.

I was just about the first person I knew (even before the school) to 
have computers\CD players\the internet as my Dad has worked with 
the "think-boxes" since he left University in the sixties.

We didn't have anything resembling the internet until at least 1995\6 
(I fail to recall exactly). And that was a seriously cut-down 
version, not even much help with 16yo history projects (I knew more 
than the sites).

Hermione's parents are dentists and Harry's are drill factory 
people.  I doublt they would be in the first wave.

However - as the playstation incedent shows - we don't *really* know 
when these are set.  In fact what we have is an internally consistant 
floating chronology which we try to pin to the "real" one with very 
scetchy data\details (synchretisms). (Dianna's death would be 
relevant to Petunia for sure, I don't think it will be mentioned 
though)

So if we assume the 1992 date for the PS\SS then the internet is a 
bit previous, also why would Wizarding figures appear on it.  If you 
typed in "Dumbledore" or "Hogwarts" or "Voldemort" you wouldn't get 
anything (in their world - because we wouldn't in our world without 
the books) as they are Wizarding figures and the internet is Muggle 
based.  These are all far more famouse figures than Flannel.

A bientot,

James