[HPforGrownups] Re: Middle Age ways of the Wizarding World

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 159555

 
In a message dated 10/12/2006 6:25:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
luv2readhp at yahoo.com writes:

After  having just returned from a quiet, splendorous 4 day trip to 
Shenandoah Valley  
and then returning to cell phones, traffic, mail, voice mails, etc... I  
don't think
it would take much for me to give it all  up.


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Yes, it's a difference, isn't it?  As a Civil War reenactor (strictly  
civilian!), I've spent many weekends without cell phones, radios, telly,  pants for 
women (long dresses only!), computers, even flushing  necessaries - cooking 
over an open fire, sewing by hand, reading by the  light of a candle...  And I 
am neither young nor particularly hardy.   Coming back is always something of a 
shock - I've always wished we could see  Hermione after she leaves the 
station one summer.  How does she  adjust?  I imagine it'd be a bit easier, once she 
was able to use magic  outside school, but still...
 
Though somehow, I don't see Hermione as that much different at home than  she 
is at school.  If she has a computer (she never mentions one), it's  probably 
used for research.  Much as at school, I believe she spends her  free time 
with her books.
 
Sherrie
(who waits til the last minute to wash her dress after a reenactment, to  
savor that woodsmoke-and-black-powder smell as long as  possible...)


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