[HPforGrownups] Technology in the WW (was Re: the view from Harry's glasses)

[Lady Macbeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 72768

<<< "elady25" wrote:...In another vein, it's always interested me
that the WW eschews so many simple technologies.  Like writing with
quills rather than ballpoint pens...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

That has bothered me since the beginning also. It is very distracting
to be always trying to dredge up a relevant experience. Although in
the particular instance of ballpoints, I remember in second or third
grade when we first started using ink, ballpoints were absolutely
forbidden; since the new (1954) school building had new desks without
inkwells, they did deign to allow us to use catridge pens.

Lady Macbeth:
Adding to this vein of thought - if the wizarding world is even aware of
ballpoint pens, they may have seem more trouble than they're worth to a
school.  My family moved around a lot, and even though all the schools I
went to were in Wisconsin, they had WAY different rules about ink.  One of
the Elementary schools I attended didn't allow us to use ink at all.
Nothing, nada.  Not even a Bic pen.  We HAD to use #2 pencil (the teacher
would even flip out on us if she caught us using a colored pencil or an art
pencil).  One Middle school I went to (grades 5-8 for our non-American
friends) didn't allow us to use "clickey" pens.  (Working under the
presumption that they were a distraction in class, because of students like
me who are hyperactive or have other learning disorders and perpetually
click them without realizing it.) They had to be the regular stick pens,
like plain black Bic pens.  No colored ink, no red ink, only blue or black
ink.  And that meant REGULAR blue or black, no cheating the rules with "sky
blue" or anything.  One High school I went to required blue or black pens,
any type - but if you were a perpetual pen clicker, chances are you were
better off with a stick pen so that it wouldn't be taken away from you.

It may have just seemed in the wizarding world much more simple and less
hassle to continue on with quills.  After all, even the "new invention" of
sugar quills aren't appreciated by a lot of teachers. ~_^  (Not that it
would have stopped me not to have them...I am also a pen chewer as well.
^_^;; )

-Lady Macbeth



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