[HPforGrownups] Quills

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 117298

Steve wrote:
>I can't imagine myself going to Hogwarts and stuggling away with
>feather quills. At best, under normal use, a quill is only good for
>about a week, and during that week requires frequent resharpening.
>This frequent resharpening has given rise to the infamous 'pen-knife'.
<snippage>
>So, back to Hogwarts, I can't imagine modern muggle kids putting up
>with the tedious struggle of writing with quills; messy, slow, and
>tedious. Personally I would have smuggled in a pen, and if the
>teachers objected, perhaps they like the nice calligraphic writing
>style of quills, I would have switched to a nice calligraphy tipped
>fountain pen.

That's if WW quills work in the same way as Muggle ones, of course.

There may well be magic that keeps them sharp (Umbridge-style...) or ensures
that they hold more ink than your standard bit of feather otherwise would.

There may be exam regulations (the educational establishment being notorious
for that kind of thing) which require the paper to be written with a quill.

And it may even be that there is some magical work (Ancient Runes for
example) that just wouldn't work if it was inscribed with a biro.

Cheers

Ffred (remembering a much-hated teacher who insisted that all of his class
wrote with fountain pens - I've never written with one since!)

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