[HPFGU-Movie] Re: WorkoutDan and Study Hall

[Karen Chuplis]

On Sunday, January 29, 2006, at 03:56 PM, Shaun Hately wrote:

> Newell, I think did a very credible job - but I am probably somewhat
> unusual in how important this is to me.
> http://www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/HSWW.html is evidence of that
> (and in my view worth reading if people don't know that much about
> the British public school tradition and how (I and others think) it
> has influenced Hogwarts.
>

Really interesting essay! I was wondering about Dudleys Smelting stick. 
Can you shed any light on the purpose of that or it's evolution? (P.S. 
the description of its apparent use by JKR via Harry is one of my 
favorite bits of humor in the books "They also carried knobbly sticks, 
used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This 
was supposed to be good training for later life.").