Magic dishwashers. I can see them being the sorts of families that never has any trouble with their Roomba. I'm sure some of them actually have electricity for the stuff they haven't charmed over yet, because electricity is probably cheaper than expending personal energy for a lot of things ... I wonder which is easier to maintain, an air conditioner or a proper cooling charm?
I wouldn't think that most Americans would have Floo Powder in a pot -- it would probably wind up in perhaps a shaker or some other clever dispenser that gives just the right amount, or little pre-packaged packets.
Pop Rocks are the Muggle version of a wizarding candy, of course. They had to come up with a Muggle version after some of the (unsafe) wizarding ones got leaked onto the Muggle market back in the '80s. That one was a major scandal, and people were sacked.
I was reading up on my Finnish wizarding roots, and it looks like that's where House Elves actually come from! They're the guardians associated with any house or building, naturally. They can be very, very tricky if you aren't on good terms with them and don't leave offerings regularly, so it would make pragmatic sense to get them under control if you were exporting them to anywhere outside of the country. At a guess, Finnish House Elves are completely free, or perhaps they've got a treaty with the humans there, but almost all other House Elves outside of Finland are probably enslaved, with the exception of Dobby and those who have been involuntarily freed.
I'd think that any House Elves in America would be via Finnish immigrants, rather than from the sorts of people who would own them, so they'd probably wind up in some of the more northerly states and parts of Canada, and no one would notice unless they were looking. I'd imagine that American House Elves would have been freed by decree at or before the time of the Civil War, because of the humans' priorities, and the American House Elves would probably have shrugged, said, "Eh, if it makes you happy," and then continued about their own business.
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Date: 2005-03-15 06:15 pm (UTC)I wouldn't think that most Americans would have Floo Powder in a pot -- it would probably wind up in perhaps a shaker or some other clever dispenser that gives just the right amount, or little pre-packaged packets.
Pop Rocks are the Muggle version of a wizarding candy, of course. They had to come up with a Muggle version after some of the (unsafe) wizarding ones got leaked onto the Muggle market back in the '80s. That one was a major scandal, and people were sacked.
I was reading up on my Finnish wizarding roots, and it looks like that's where House Elves actually come from! They're the guardians associated with any house or building, naturally. They can be very, very tricky if you aren't on good terms with them and don't leave offerings regularly, so it would make pragmatic sense to get them under control if you were exporting them to anywhere outside of the country. At a guess, Finnish House Elves are completely free, or perhaps they've got a treaty with the humans there, but almost all other House Elves outside of Finland are probably enslaved, with the exception of Dobby and those who have been involuntarily freed.
I'd think that any House Elves in America would be via Finnish immigrants, rather than from the sorts of people who would own them, so they'd probably wind up in some of the more northerly states and parts of Canada, and no one would notice unless they were looking. I'd imagine that American House Elves would have been freed by decree at or before the time of the Civil War, because of the humans' priorities, and the American House Elves would probably have shrugged, said, "Eh, if it makes you happy," and then continued about their own business.