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[boundbooks]

Dear Fic Author,

I would say, in general, that the strongest argument for why Hermione Granger would never come across another Hogwarts student reading Twilight has nothing to do with the question of the magical community's feelings about 'realistic portrayals of vampires', but rather two small facts.

Twlight was published in 2005
Hermione's seventh year at Hogwarts would have been 1998, and even counting the non-canonical eight year, that only brings us to 1999.

Unless you time-shifted your AU (and you didn't) none of the Hogwarts students during Harry Potter's school years are going to be spending their spare time reading the works of Stephanie Meyer.

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[megpie71]

Yeah, that would probably do it. Some other things the Hogwarts crew are not going to be doing (just for the sake of reference):

Listening to Lady Gaga
Fiddling with their iPhone/iPod (or mp3 player in general)
Checking out Facebook
Using any form of commercial ebook reader
Playing games on an Xbox/Wii (Playstation, maybe... but they'll be the earliest games released on the platform in the UK, and the competition is going to be the Nintendo Gamecube)
Using a mobile phone to interact with the internet
Googling for anything

(Heck, if you want to find out what they were likely to have been doing, your best reference is Google Groups, and looking around for various newsgroups which were popular back in the early-to-mid 1990s - but remember, at the time, they would have been using Deja News).

[boundbooks]

Yes to all of this! 1,000 times over! XD

[szaleniec1000]

Or using a mobile phone for anything. Yes, they existed but they weren't being routinely sold to children or given them by their parents. Also, when it comes to electronics at Hogwarts that's a big no anyway.

Also also, even if it is a present-day AU, I don't see Hermione as a Twilight fan. Except maybe in the Reasoning with Vampires sense.

[boundbooks]

So agreed about the cell phones! Randomly advanced technology definitely raises my eyebrows while I'm reading.

[cesy]

Yes, so much.

Alternatively, you could find a fellow fan from the UK of about the right age and ask them to beta your fic!