I don't see how mentioning certain songs is disrespectful to JKR's world. I love old songs, classics. And I don't just mean in the 19th century. Folk songs and everything are cool.
Either way... that's not my point I'd like to make for the thread.
The whole first year knowing spells straight away... yeaaahhhh... I can understand why people play firsties like that. Sometimes they want to start at 1st year, but if their character doesn't really know magic then it won't be as fun as when there's older characters, you know?
Then again, I agree it's not at all realistic. Also, Jake didn't manage proper magic until he was 14/15. XD I think it's VERY realistic to have your character go through a learning progress for a while *nods*
I have many more ideas but no attention span and I don't to cause any arguments because what I call UNrealistic RPing is stuff I've seen people do.