[HPforGrownups] Squib!Harry in the WW (was:Re: The Scar)

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 160421

> Betsy Hp:
> Therefore I do think it's important that of the tiny amount of
> Muggle/Wizard marriages we've seen, all of them involve some sort of
> deception,

Andromeda Black & Ted Tonks?

> >>Ken:
> > Betsy, all a pen does is put ink on paper, even in the WW. The
> > exceptions I can think of are Rita's Quick Quotes Quill which is
> > hardly an asset to a responsible journalist and the spell-checking
> > functions of Ron's pen.

You've missed out one that Harry has had some unpleasant experience with.

> Betsy Hp:
> Okay, so Harry wouldn't be able to guarantee a proper quote.
> (Unless he learned short-hand... somewhere.)

Wizarding journalism doesn't appear to demand proper quotes. Hence,
the quick quotes quill. and - for that matter it appears that the
quick quotes quill is something you can buy at a store, not something
you have to charm yourself - no evidence it wouldn't work for a
muggle.

We have no evidence that what's used by most wizards - even honest
journalists (if such a thing exists), are anything more than ordinary
quills with ordinary ink and ordinary parchment.

> Betsy Hp:
> Right, only how many book editors or journalists can get by today
> without a computer?  How many could get hired today if they
> explained that due to some horrible experience computers refuse to
> function for them?  That's what Harry would be facing.

You have not properly established that anything more than an
_ordinary_ quill and _ordinary_ parchment are necessary - if he tried
to be a reporter though he might have trouble establishing honest
journalism as a genre.

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Random832