[HPforGrownups] Re: Bigotry in the Potterverse

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188097


> Geoff:
> Well, I have to maintain my long-standing reputation as being 
> good at quoting canon.
> :-)
>   
I suspect you're really Hg in disguise. 
> Though I have to admit that I couldn't recall the computer game 
> to which Sister Magpie drew our attention.
>   
In DH, it comes up between the departure of the Dursleys and the arrival 
of the OOP when HP is thinking back on the few times he'd ever been left 
in the house--channel surfing, playing games on Big D's computer.  Also 
when HP gets Big D's spare bedroom and Big D retreats to his room to 
play a computer game.  Also, I think, in the first book as part of the 
litany of presents D gets before the trip to the zoo.

Frankly, JKR is to commended for dropping so few time marks that her 
work could relevant to any modern era without feeling dated to the 
reader.  I was enjoying Pretty Woman the other night, until Richard Gere 
started using that shoebox sized cellphone.  I imagine my grandchildren 
and their kids will read it with equal sense that it was written for 
them in their time.
-- 

Rick Kennerly
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