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No: HPFGUIDX 179796

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at ...> wrote:
>
> > While reading DH, I had the strong feeling that JKR's writing was 
> based 
> > on resistance fighters in WW2. I then asked myself: Teenagers! Where 
> > are the mobile phones (cell phones) and computers? The dragon flying 
> > from Gringotts would easily be picked up by satellite and planes. 
> Why 
> > didn't we see any? Giants would also be easily spotted.
> > So question:
> > 
> > What time period is HP set in?
> > 
> > Barry
> >
> 
> Aussie:
> Harry went to Hogwarts in 1991, and DH ended in 1998. 
> Analogue mobile phones (easily tapped) back then.
> Windows 95 had been going for some time and even Yahoo was around in 
> 1996. So JKR gave Dudley a computer, which Harry played some games 
> on ...
> 
> but even if Hermione was good at PC's the word HORCRUX didn't appear 
> until after JKR introduced it ... it wouldn't have helped the trio 
> find the artifacts.
> As for giants, they may have been hidden until the Hogwarts battle, 
> and the protective charms on the castles and the grounds may have 
> hidden the giants.
> 
> and satelites seeing Dragons .... maybe ... but quietened for fear of 
> being called crazy
> 
> aussie

Sue here:

I think in one of the earlier books Hagrid said that Muggles who did see giants didn't live 
to tell the tale - it was assumed that they'd had mountain-climbing accidents.

Even if Hermione did get to an Internet cafe - and there weren't many of them around 
back then - you'd be unlikely to find the word 'horcrux" on-line because it would mean 
some wizard had a web site (a wizard with dark ambitions!) and they just don't use Muggle 
technology, which clashes with magic. Heck, they don't even have phones! :-)
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