Potter Note

[subplotkudzu]

Wizards don't have television. Or Movies. No mention of them anywhere. 

I guess Theater and Radio Plays are still big things in Wizard society. Must take this into account with Year 2's DADA professor.  

Comments on mass media in the Wizarding World welcome.

Comments

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Ah, but they do have radio: 'And unless Harry's ears were deceiving him, the old radio next to the sink had just announced that coming up was "the Witching Hour, with the popular singing sorcererss Celistina Warbeck."' Chamber of Secrets p 34 (American hardcover edition). They don't have any radios at the school (or at least the students don't), but the minsitry clearly maintains a Wizarding Broadcast Network.

And there's just no sign of anything resembling television - even if the magicla technology couldn't support it there's never any mention of the kids watching TV, or even the presence of such a thing in the Weasley home. No way that we'd be watching a family that large for the time that Harry was there and not have a mention of the Entertainment Portrait, especially how Rowling makes a big deal about so many other Wizard-Muggle analogues.

Nothing wrong it with it mind you, but I'm going to be exploring how entertainment works in this book, so it seemed important.