That Infamous Health-Class Talk... Hogwarts Style!

[Pam Scruton]

No: HPFGUIDX 368

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" 

> Actually, I'm pretty sure that Madam Pomfrey gives a talk to the 
> first-year girls soon after they arrive ... about menstruation, not 
> about where babies come from. (The newspapers tell me that little 
> girls nowdays reach menarche significantly before they turn 11, but 
> that is one of the things that I trust their internal magic to keep 
> the good old-fashioned way.) 

In British schools it is usually the school nurse who gives 'the 
talk' in Primary Schools (age 5 to 11 in England and Wales, 5 - 12 in 
Scotland) and if our local school is anything to go by, she gives the 
talk separately to boys and girls.   Actually it isn't 'the talk' it 
is 'the subject' and is taught at different levels in different 
guises pretty well throughout school.  Sex Education in secondary 
schools (11/12 - 16/18) is a big debating point in Britain - some 
schools provide sex ed separately for boys and girls, some teach boys 
and girls together and some do both depending on what is being 
taught. 

So at least Hogwarts pupils attending muggle schools would have 
had 'the talk' anyway.  

Pam