Electricity

[bluesqueak <pipdowns@etchells0.demon.co.uk>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50628

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Wolber 
<katydid3500 at y...> wrote:
> 


> > >Debbie:
> > ><Snip> Hermione mentions that
> > >magic and electricity don't work together. I'm assuming she
> > >means just at Hogwarts, right? 
<Snip>

Kathryn:
> I definitely think that this refers solely to
> Hogwarts.  <Snip>
>  I mean, I'm pretty
> sure that some Wizards use electronics, just not at
> Hogwarts.  Ah, I got it, the Weasley's tent at the
> Quidditch World Cup had lights and running water.

Pip!Squeak:  
'Fraid not. Harry, Hermione and Ron have to go get the water from a 
tap in Ch. 7 GoF. That's when they meet little Kevin expanding his 
Slug and Archie with his 'healthy breeze round my privates'. Other 
wizarding families are using the tap, too. There's a queue.

The tent is lit, but we never find out how. Likewise, I can't find a 
mention of how the Weasley's light their house, though Mr Weasley 
conjures up candles to light the gardens in GoF ch.5.

Kathryn:
> And I believe there is mention of the Weasley's having a
> toaster one of the times Harry is visiting.  

Again, no. There is mention of the Weasley's eating marmalade, which 
usually comes complete with toast in the UK, but I can find no 
mention of a toaster.

Shocking as it may be to our younger members, you don't need 
electric toasters to make toast. I have myself used the old 
fashioned method of spearing the bread on a toasting fork and then 
toasting it in front of the kitchen [coal] fire.

Mrs Weasley probably points her wand at the bread and it magically 
levitates and toasts *itself* in front of the fire [grin]. But the 
principle is the same.

Pip!Squeak