[HPforGrownups] Re: Dursleys and owl post

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 41321


>Of course. Not knowing how the Muggle post works, Mully went to the
>post office. The clerk would have told her exactly what value of
>stamps was required and would have sold them to her. Even if she were
>just buying stamps without the letter on her person, she would have
>been asked how big the letter was and whether it was inland or
>abroad. There is no way she'd have gone in and just dreamt up a sum
>of stamps to buy.

>Scenario at post office desk:
Molly: I want to send a letter
Clerk: where to?
M: erm... [consults notes] Little Whinging
C: how big is the letter?
M: [(either) shows the letter (or) shows with her hands]
C: [(either) puts letter on scales (or) guesses]: 26p, please
M: [fumbles in purse & pulls out huge banknote or handfull of change]
C: [thinks this woman is a bit strange but gives her the right change
anyway] Next
M: Thank you

>No other scenario is possible.


Why? I find it far easier to imagine Molly getting hold of a pound coin (or
two, or three)
and going to the stamp machine. (If I'm not sure how things work, I prefer
to deal
with machines. And for Molly it has an added benefit of allowing to stay in
robes).
Then she puts on that envelope all the stamps she'd bought.
BTW, for someone apparently interested in muggle ways, Arthur is
unbelievably ignorant.
Are wizards that isolated, or is he just a hopeless amateur?

Irene