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[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 142619

Nora:
> I'm simply arguing 
> against, again, the idea that Muggle music is a common currency 
> within wizarding society, maintaining its sonic profile and band 
> associations unchanged

I don't know about 'common currency', but wouldn't a half-blood or
muggleborn, who constitute a large percentage of the Hogwarts
population, go clubbing or whatever on a saturday night over the
summer?  And take their friends as they got older?  Wouldn't a
musically inclined subset at Hogwarts fall in love with bands like
normal people?  I suppose the Weird Sisters would have started like
that-- listening to muggle music, and starting a garage band at
Hogwarts.  The wizard-on-the-street wouldn't know the sources, but
then, the man-on-the-street hasn't heard of obscure indie bands that
source mainstream rock either.  

What are we arguing about again? Oh yes:

> That's totally not what was originally suggested by 
> the speculation en masse of what kind of Muggle music Lucius Malfoy 
> would have exposed young Snapeykins to.

In so far as this concerns me, I don't think I ever actually posited
Lucius as taking Snape to the opera.  I said, quote, "Lucius is the
TYPE OF PERSON who goes to the opera and talks all the way through
it".  Which is what I thought we were talking about, which is, given
the sort of people these characters are, what is the sort of music
they would listen to?  There's two conversations here, both of which
are fun:  the sociology of music in the wizarding world one, and the,
what, meta?, one matching characters with bands.
> 
> Betsy:
> I *can* say, with a great deal of authority, that one 
> > can listen to and enjoy Debussy or Beethoven or Rachmaninov or 
> > Velvet Underground or even ABBA (yes, even ABBA!) without taking 
> > special courses or having a specialized type of patience. <bg>

Nora:
> 
> Depends on your definition of 'listen', of course... :)

Me:

I think that's exactly the sort of patience Snape has, actually-- the
patience to hunker down alone in a dark room and analyze something
over a period of hours, as a complicated potion might take, that
involves a complex interplay of elements.  And nobody could argue that
Snape isn't an obsessive personality!  

Sydney