Wizarding primary schools again

[clairey at airy-fairy.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 16503

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jennifer.k at l... wrote:
> 
> 
> ohh...this is so small and thin I can hardly make myself post it. 
But 
> anyway...
> 
> This is a little comment on a discussion held some time ago, when 
the 
> subject was wizarding primary school. I´m not sure if you all ended 
> up beliving in them or not. But when I reread HP and the 
> Philosopher´s Stone, I noticed this comment from Draco (The 
Forbidden 
> Forest-chapter), when he is informed about their detention-task. 
> "...I thought we´d be writing lines or something..."
> This is a very often used punishment in school (especially primary, 
I 
> belive), and not at home. As much as I can belive Lucius Malfoy 
about 
> handing out every possible sort of punishment, having Draco 
discover 
> them that way and referring to his childhood when speaking 
> about "writing lines" it could be a sign of that he is used to 
> schools and knows their game (and punishment), thus going to one 
> before Hogwarts.
> 
> I´ll just forget the whole thing right... :) Oh well.
> /Jennifer


I don't believe that there are wizarding primary schools, mainly 
because Ron tells Harry in PS/SS "everyone starts at the beggining at 
Hogwarts..."

I don't know where he got the "writing lines" thing from, but at my 
primary school we didn't write lines. Maybe for punishment in other 
subject he has had to write lines (?). I'm not sure...