[HPforGrownups] another wizarding school (was Trevor & list of students)

[Adana Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 32426


>From: "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at wicca.net>
>If only She hadn't said so firmly that Hogwarts is the only wizarding
>school in Britain! The contradiction between 250-300 students at
>Hogwarts but 1000-some kids that age are needed to keep up the
>population, would be easily resolved if there were three other,
>lesser, wizarding schools the same size as Hogwarts, or one the same
>size (in Ireland) and one twice as large (somewhere in Britain).
>

(I apologize if this topic has been discussed on this list before.)  Has JKR 
ever said that there are only the three schools mentioned in GoF?  Is there 
any possibility that there are any schools in America? Or are we just 
hopelessly prosaic?

I see any wizarding schools in the U.S.A. as much more down-to-earth, and 
would do things like making "Muggle Studies" a mandatory class, since there 
seem to be so &%$# many of us (Muggles) here.  As Durmstrang focuses more on 
Dark Arts, this school would focus more on teaching students to blend in and 
work with the "normal" world.

I have always thought that if all wizards are like Arthur Weasley (as much 
as I like him) and his "eckeltricity", then they'd be pretty darn useless in 
defending the "normal" world from evil.  (Of course, this may not be their 
primary function; I may have formed that idea from Susan Cooper's "The Dark 
is Rising" series, and Diane Duane's "So You Want to Be a Wizard" series, 
etc.)

I think there would need to be a school which would train kids in all the 
wizardly arts, but also in Muggle lives, and I think some parents even from 
other countries would send their children there so that they could get good 
jobs in the "normal" world and defend the helpless Muggles from evil.  Then 
there'd be the other parents who wouldn't see the whole point of needing to 
know any non-magic things, or would just want their kids closer to home, and 
would send them elsewhere; and then there'd be the Malfoy crowd, who would 
be horrified at the very idea that their children should be asked to live as 
Muggles and would never believe that there might be some value to it.  They 
would probably despise any wizards educated there as much as regular 
Muggles.

This could even be a relatively new school.  Perhaps Dumbledore pushed for 
its establishment after his defeat of the dark wizard Saruman 
(er--whatever!) in 1945.  I am convinced that this had something to do with 
WWII and Hitler, so maybe at this point Dumbledore realized that wizards had 
to be more active in the "normal" world, as not all evil comes from evil 
wizards--enough of it comes from Muggles to make it worthwhile to keep an 
eye on them.

This would also help the population problem--some of the wizards in Britain 
have sent their kids to this school.


Adana, who *wants* a wizarding school in her native land

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