[HPforGrownups] Yule Ball and other dances (or, Are You Tainted by Fanfic?)

[rachel day]

No: HPFGUIDX 46726

Katie wrote:

>>I don't know for sure but from talking with some international students, it seems like schools abroad simply do not have the amount of dances that we do. (nor do they have the evil known as pep rallies, lucky people you) <<

Hi! I can't speak for other schools, but the school I go to, and those in the surrounding area don't have regular dances. I always saw this as an Americanism. we used to have discos in Junior school (ages 7 - 11) at, IIRC, Christmas and at the end of the year. We also had a leaving disco for *just* our year in the summer before we went up to the Comprehensive school.

The only exception I know of to the dance rule is a friend of a friend. He lives in Portsmouth (the other end of the country to me, and where she used to live) She told me that they were having a dance (I think she called it a prom, I cant remember) and that as school prefect he had to open it (that was how the conversation came up, she was talking about how he and his friends were hiring a limo).


I've always kind of hoped (even though there is no canon to suggest this) that there is a room, besides the great hall, where all of the houses could mix (although Slytherin would probably not have participated). I think this line of thinking came about when we found out about Percy and Penelope's relationship. It would have been hard to keep that going if they could only see each other in the great hall at mealtimes and occasional Hogsmeade visits, even if they had some classes together.

Rachel


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