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Originally Posted by rock
I don't understand her line about experience it on paper? how does that make a difference.
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You have not read the books, have you?
J. K. Rowling is an absolute technophobic and Ludite.
In Harry-Potter-land there are basically two groups of people:
- Muggles - pathetic poor clueless sods that can not do any magic and have to resort to using technical means. There is not a single nice muggle person described in the books that I can remember.
- People gifted with the ability to do magic - Wizards. Wonderful great people (except for villains, of course, because muggles are so pathetic, they can not even be proper villains).
EVERYTHING in the Harry Potter world is done by magic. Even such things as using post, transport, making newspapers, preparing food is done by magic. There is no single electrical appliance at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There are some wizards that can use advanced technology, such as a watch or even drive a car, but those are generally frowned upon and are regarded as strongly eccentric. All students make notes on pieces of pergamen (poor lambs!) using quills and ink.
Mrs. Rowling even wrote the first manuscript on the mechanical typewriter, but that was ONLY because she had to -- nobody would have accepted hand-written
manuscript today. After she became famous she did all her writing using pen and paper. She is rich enough to hire some muggles to do the typing for her.