Leaving school in the UK - OT

[Michelle Apostolides]

No: HPFGUIDX 10600

> As I read the ending it made me think of something though. We never
really
> said goodbye to Wood, and it was his last year. That made me wonder,
doesn't
> Hogwarts have some sort of a graduation for their 7th year students?
Some
> wizards go to higher schooling, right? So, don't they have to
graduate? Or
> is there something during the dinner?

British schools don't tend to have much in the way of a formal leaving
service. Older, established public and pseudo public schools ( I think
you call them private in the US ) have a religious ceremony or a ball or
a leavers and teachers get together of some sort. When I left one school
after my GCSEs at 16, we did a leaver's assembly where we mimed to We Go
Together from Grease. This took place in Mid May before we went off on
study leave for  external exams. Then in the June or early July we did a
tea party in our classroom for all the teachers. At this point I
remember disgracing myself my bursting into tears when we were presented
with a keepsake by our headmistress.  I had been at the same school
since I was seven.

When I moved schools for my A levels, we had a really stilted tea in the
Girls School ( There was a boys Junior and Senior School as well as a
Girls School all on one site ). Oh, and there was a " ball " which was
more like a pathetic dinner and dance somewhere nice in London.

Please excuse the ot-ness of this post !!

Michelle