Mel's been to...17th-century Jamaica, Elizabethan London, 1920s America...she wins!
'Us working-class types generally just go for 'Hey, I'm (name), you're on (friend's) facebook,' she replies steadily, smile not dimming one whit. 'Formality, I find, tends to draw all the enjoyment from a situation til it's bone-dry. Though Hogwarts is a boarding school, it's not that Eton-Oxbridge stuff.' She tilts her head. 'If you were looking for hallowed halls and vine-draped walls...it's totally the wrong atmosphere.'
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Date: 2007-12-23 12:43 am (UTC)'Us working-class types generally just go for 'Hey, I'm (name), you're on (friend's) facebook,' she replies steadily, smile not dimming one whit. 'Formality, I find, tends to draw all the enjoyment from a situation til it's bone-dry. Though Hogwarts is a boarding school, it's not that Eton-Oxbridge stuff.' She tilts her head. 'If you were looking for hallowed halls and vine-draped walls...it's totally the wrong atmosphere.'