A Wizards Guide to Muggle Etiquette
'It is generally considered that excellant manners and self-conduct, will always
get you futher in society; than indifference, selfishness and disrepect. As it is unequivocally vulgar and inadmissible.'
1. Introductions
Always intoduce the gentlemen to the Lady and never the other way round, as the conduct of
chivalry dictacts that the Lady is invariably the superior of the two sexes.
Where the sexes are the same always present the inferior to the superior
(In wizard terms the half-blood to the Pure Blood (should the pure blood wish to knowledge
the lower class.........)
When introduced to a Lady for the first time never offer your hand, keep it to a simple bow.
2. Conversations
'There is a certain distinct but subdued tone of voice which
is perculiar to only a well-bred person'
1.There is no greater nusicance in society than a
dull and perservering punster.
2.Never ever, interrupt someone who is speaking.
3. To listen well is almost as great an art as to talk. As
you must endevour to seem interested in the conversation of others.
4. When speaking to a foreigner, good breeding and manners
demands that the conversation shall be carried out in the person's own language.
3. General Hints and Tips
1. A gentleman should never permit a lady to pay for refreshments,
vechiles, and so forth at public balls, and thretres etc. If she insists on repaying him afterwards, he must defer to her
wishes.
2. Never smoke in the presence of ladies
3.Always give the lady the wall, by doing so you interpose
your own person between her and other passers-by.
4. It should be remembered that, without either ostentation
or folly, a gift ought to be worth offering. It is better to give nothering than too little.
4. Final points to remember
1. Never use a hankerchief that is not perfectly
clean.
2. Don't talk loudly or make much noise in trains
or public places.
3.Never push in front of ladies.
4. Scrape your plate
5.Don't eat or drink noisily.
6. Don't wear anything but a silk hat with a frock
coat or tail-coat.
7. Don't clean or cut your nails anywhere but in
your own room.
