Did R.A.B. drink the Kool-Aid?

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 135228

Guru said:
> Question: Are witches/wizards who grew up with and spend there summers
> with Muggle families influenced by Muggle ideas?  Hermione went to
> school, one assumes, with Muggles before she enrolled at Hogwart's.
> She also comes from a family of professionals. She must have been
> exposed to computers along the way. I'm surprised that she hasn't
> created herself Google-ish magic index of the library.


I would imagine that the Muggleborn students are very much influenced 
by their summers in the Muggle world - remember that Dean Smith kept 
his football poster up for years after he'd learned about and became a 
fan of Quidditch!

However, I don't believe that Hermione would have done a Google-type 
search engine for the Hogwarts library, at least if you take the 
Lexicon time frame into account, in which the Trio starts Hogwarts in 
1991 and finishes in 1998.  

Those were the years I was in high school and college, incidentally.  
And I don't remember using the internet half as much as I do now - and 
I certainly didn't use it as a primary source for research material!  
Chances are very good that Hermione, for all her knowledge, isn't too 
well versed in computers.  After all, following her departure from the 
Muggle school system, she probably did not have a chance to really 
learn about it, and as most adults are much slower about picking up new 
technology than their children, her parents (who would not let her use 
magic to fix her teeth) likely wouldn't have introduced it to her 
either.

--azriona