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Apr. 17th, 2007 11:18 pmI've been reading some posts about Muggles and stuff, and I remembered a phenomenon I've seen a lot lately:
Ball-point pens.
People (authors) seem so fond of ditching the quills and frankly, it's inexplicable. I was at Primary school when the trio were at secondary school, and at my primary school (or, my last one), the privilege to write with a Fountain Pen was something that people strived for.
The Quill, surely, is an extension of that? We went from pencils to handwriting pens to fountain pens, after all. Ball pens only became popular when the 'muggleborns' (people who came into the secondary school from outside, instead of through the primary school that fed into it) all used ballpens and no-one around would lend an ink-cartridge to their neighbour any more.
Andway, it's weird. Quills all the way!
Ball-point pens.
People (authors) seem so fond of ditching the quills and frankly, it's inexplicable. I was at Primary school when the trio were at secondary school, and at my primary school (or, my last one), the privilege to write with a Fountain Pen was something that people strived for.
The Quill, surely, is an extension of that? We went from pencils to handwriting pens to fountain pens, after all. Ball pens only became popular when the 'muggleborns' (people who came into the secondary school from outside, instead of through the primary school that fed into it) all used ballpens and no-one around would lend an ink-cartridge to their neighbour any more.
Andway, it's weird. Quills all the way!
