Implications of talking by fireplace

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 97648

 "sbursztynski" <greatraven at h...>   Sue wrote:
> Since the WW doesn't have "fellytones" and seems to be in contact 
by 
> fireplace/floo powder, how would you contact friends just for a 
chat?
> Their 
> teenagers are so deprived! ;-) Imagine it: evening in a wizard
> household. 
> "Ron, get your head out of that fireplace, you've been on for two
> hours now 
> and I'm waiting for an important floo from the MoM! No, I don't
> *care* if you're 
> talking to Harry about the party!" It wouldn't happen, of course -
> it's way too 
> uncomfortable to be kneeling in the fireplace, as Harry finds in 
OoP.


Potioncat:
I've always assumed that they could use a small flame (candle, 
lantern) sort of like a phone, but now that I think of it, it's never 
been done that way in canon.

There is a more efficient means of communication, but we haven't been 
shown it.

Personally, I'd like for my teens to have to kneel at the fireplace 
to talk to their friends....they wouldn't be hogging it so much, I 
dare say!
Potioncat