Slughorn's Gramophone (WAS: Snape's iPod)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 142510

On 11/4/05, Caius Marcius <coriolan at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> [Harry] had lagged behind after every Potions lesson that week in an
> attempt to corner Slughorn, but the Potions master always left the
> dungeon so fast that Harry had not been able to catch him. Twice, Harry
> had gone to his office and knocked, but received no reply, though on
> the second occasion he was sure he had heard the quickly stifled sounds
> of an old gramophone.
>
> - HBP, Chap. 21
>
> It may be a just a Flint, but, surely, so skilled a wizard as Slughorn
> could figure out some way to play a phonograph sans electricity?

 It didn't require such a skilled a wizard as Slughorn to do it. Anyone can
play an old gramophone without electricity. They're crank-operated. So no
flint. (IIRC, Lupin had one in the celluloid version of PoA.)
 What we need magic for is to figure out how to shrink the gramophone down
to iPod size for jogging purposes. ;-)
 Debbie
who owns an early model Victrola and has learned the fine art of cranking up
the turntable to exactly 78 rpm


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