A Hogwarts education

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6261

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, atelecky at m... wrote:

> Incidentally, I haven't ever seen any evidence of any education in 
> music or art at Hogwarts--nothing like a band or an orchestra. 

I bet that art and music are taught in the form of clubs. We haven't 
heard anything about clubs at Hogwarts except Lockhart's dreadful 
attempt to start a dueling club. The dueling club began a notice 
was put on the bulletin board in the Great Hall, announcing time 
and place of its first meeting, and people from all different Houses 
attended that meeting. I bet that anyone, or anyone who got a staff 
member as adult sponsor, can put up a sign and thus start a club. I 
bet there are many different clubs, which is one way that students 
from different Houses get to know each other. Us readers don't see 
these clubs because Harry is too busy with Quidditch practise, 
classes, and saving the world to join clubs, but for all I know, Ron 
is a star at the chess club. Okay, now let's speculate if the kids in 
the Symphony Orchestra club have to teach themselves to play their 
instruments and to conduct, or have to make do with whatever 
staff member had a hobby of conducting orchestras, or are they 
allowed to have a volunteer music teacher from Hogsmeade and/or 
to raise money to hire what they need in the way of music teachers, 
conductors, soloists?

> >There are probably all sorts of interesting possibilities in the 
> arts opened up by magic. Architects could completely disregard
> worries about structural  stability; one simple charm and you could
> have any kind of crazy building stand up.

The Burrow!!!

> Not much of a thread, but can anyone think of some other things 
> Hogwarts might be lacking in? Right now its a bit of a
> one-dimensional school--there's no philosophy or literature--

It seems to me that there was a time in Muggle history when 
'education' was only about Latin and Greek language, literature, and 
philosophy, and all other subjects were learned on one's own or by 
apprenticeships.

> I wonder if there is much if any overlap between the 
> Muggle world and the wizarding world. 

There IS enough overlap that enough Muggles and Magics meet and 
marry to have a number of 'half-and-half' students.