[HPforGrownups] Re: WW as Parasite (was:Snape's iPod (was: Staff's Activities...)

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 142620



Betsy Hp:
>I still think it's a huge leap of faith to say that the Muggle world
>and the WW, while travelling on parallel tracks, that never, ever
>touched, came up with the exact same form of music at the exact same
>time.

PJ:
But they do touch!   Each and every time an 11 year old Muggle child gets a 
letter from Hogwarts, that new student's music, sports, literature and 
(perhaps) art preferences goes right to Hogwarts along with them!  Like 
Harry, these children could've been exposed to all of this at their public 
schools as well as from their parents.  Also when they go home for the 
summer and holidays they hear any of the new music they missed while at 
school.

For those older, more established in the WW type wizards, walking down 
Muggle streets or opening a window in your muggle area homes (they can't all 
be out in the middle of nowhere!) can get you an earful of whatever music is 
currently all the rage, so muggle contamination in the arts seems almost a 
given to me...

Betsy Hp:
>And I'm still confused at why it's patently impossible for Snape to
>have been exposed to punk rock.

PJ:
I think it's perfectly reasonable to think he may have been.  He lives in a 
so called "muggle dunghill" so I'm sure music from boomboxes or passing car 
stereos are the norm.

PJ (who sometimes wonders how much whining the Muggleborn kids do when they 
find out there's no television in the Wizarding World)