[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Hogwarts-ish school in the US?

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 3:23 AM -0800 12/25/03, Kathryn Cawte wrote:
>  > Boggles
>
>>  Bear in mind that education is, by design, the responsibility of the
>>  individual states in the US, not the federal government.  I see no
>>  reason why the Wizarding World would work differently.
>
>Well since Hogwarts is 1000 years old I would assume that any non-native
>American schools would have been set up to mimic the model that was in
>existence when the colonies were founded.

Well, when they were colonies, I would have imagined that wizarding 
children would have been shipped back to Scotland to attend Hogwarts 
itself.  Certainly the population here wasn't large enough to support 
a wizarding school of its own (unless, of course, there was already 
one in Salem at the time).

After the Revolutionary War, it appears from the scant evidence in 
QttA and FBaWTFT that USian wizards adopted much of the character of 
their young country, which at the time would have involved quite a 
bit of state feeling.  (If nothing else, at the very least there have 
to have been competing schools in Massachusetts and Virginia!)

>  Besides I'm not sure how likely it
>would be to have three schools covering Europe and at least the western part
>of Russia and 50 in the US.

True, but I'm not at all sure I believe that those three cover all of 
Europe, either.  Is there any evidence that either Beauxbatons or 
Durmstrang covers Italy and Greece, for example?  Or that Durmstrang 
covers the Scandinavian countries?  Those three may just be the three 
largest, or the three oldest, or most prominent.

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