[HPforGrownups] Yule Ball & JKR's "Englishisms"

[Richard Thorp]

No: HPFGUIDX 46742

Rah! Something I can talk from experience about...

The UK in general does not have many school dances.. In fact, most of
the time it will end up being a christmas party organised by the
students, held away from school, rather than an organised thing.

A lot of JKR's writing is very much based around English
commonalities, like the lack of dances/balls, the school system
(GCSEs/OWLs and A-Levels/NEWTs), class system, railways (true some of
this is necessitated by the living-in-UK point, but it still stands
that JKR puts a lot of English-ism into the books). Another good
example is the emphasis on the one sport (Quidditch) with a 4-yearly
World Cup (unlike the Super Bowl or any similar American sports, which
are yearly (I assume? :))

This is why fanficcing can be dangerous I suppose, since a lot of the
fic writers are American, and some don't bother too much with
Americanism-eradicating test readings...

I'm rambling, nevermind :) Hope that helps!

-Rich
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