Fandom wank about toilets, outhouses and other stuff

[vegablack62]

I hope I never have to say this again.  I find these issues mar otherwise excellent fics.  In Britain as in many parts of Europe, the toilet is the name for the room where you find the toilet and the Bathroom is the name for the room where you would find a bath.  That makes sense right.  They are not always the same place as in the US.  In my

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[vegablack62]

I've encountered this a bit in fics, when it does it always jolts me.

No one writes the students taking a gap year off for travel which is what students in Britain do all the time.

I thought the school in the movie had been Americanized. Slughorn's party seemed more like an American school dance than the actual Slugclub Christmas party. Potions seemed like an American High School class.

[shiiki]

which is what students in Britain do all the time.

Plus, Dumbledore and Doge did it!

I think it may be something to do with the war messing up everybody's lives. And JKR mentioning that Harry went to help with the Aurors, though I can't recall the exact quote referring to that.

[vegablack62]

I was thinking more of Next-gen. The Potter friends are not in the position to do it.

[miss_morland]

Dumbledore and Harry are talking in an old storage shed at the Weasleys not a smelly manure pile.

Now I can't stop imagining that. *giggles*

[ceirdwenfc]

This is a pet peeve of mine, and I really try to be good in my fics.

Thank you for posting this, especially the part about the outhouses.

They also call their backyards "gardens", which has a different connotation here in the US and doesn't always have a flower bed.

[laliandra]

Oh wow, Thank You for saying this! That sort of thing always jolts me right out of stories.

We actually had a prom at the end of school, and I would say the majority of schools do nowadays. But I'm not sure if they did when Harry's year would have left school.

I am always so pleased when people actually do a bit of research, it only takes a few minutes on google, after all! But it is so appreciated. I'm still constantly amazed at how many words/phrases we don't share, even though technically it's the same langage...

[sea_thoughts]

We did have a dance at the end of our compulsory schooling, but we called it a "Leaver's Ball", not a prom. :) There might be an informal party organised by a student but I can't see there being something official.