What were the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students doing all year?

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

No: HPFGUIDX 16916

> I agree with you, Amy - just a one liner from Fred or George that the
> veela-girl from Beauxbatons was proving to be a major distraction
> when they have Herbology with the Ravenclaws & Beauxbatons students,
> or that they were supposed to have DaDA with the Slytherins and
> Durmstrang students, but the Durmstrangers got to be exempt and were
> all working  on a project with Karkaroff - isn't that odd? - would
> have gone a long way.

Maybe I'm deranged, but I assumed that the Beauxbatons students were
continuing to have their lessons in French in that enormous horse-drawn
carriage of Madame Maxime's, and the Durmstrang students were having lessons
in Bulgarian (or Russian, or whatever) on the ship.  It never occurred to me
to think they should be having classes with the Hogwarts students -- I
figured they were sharing meals, free time, and the TWT with the Hogwarts
students (in the interests of fellowship and cooperation) but that was it.

Would there even have been *room* in the Hogwarts classes for the
Beauxbatons and Durmstrang crowd?  Some of the classrooms seem plenty big,
but others (like Trelawney's) not so... and then, it would be quite a burden
to ask the Hogwarts teachers to take on extra students on top of what
already seems to be a pretty full schedule.  Also, Fleur would DEFINITELY
have had something to say about the quality of the education at Hogwarts if
she weren't taking her lessons with her usual teachers -- but as it was, she
just complained about the food and the climate.

I got the impression that Madame Maxime and Karkaroff were both quite proud
of, and committed to, their own ways of teaching.  I can't see them
willingly relinquishing their students to the Hogwarts masters and then
sitting around twiddling their thumbs all day.
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Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
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