Sorting Hat and etc./Education system

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 10680

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rina Stewart" <rina at l...> wrote:
> Steph wrote:
> 
> <<> 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?>>
> 
> How do we know there's higher schooling? Percy evidently did 
extremely well on his NEWTS, but he didn't go to more school, he went 
straight to work at the ministry. While I can see Hermione going to a 
Muggle college and claiming private schooling from 11-17 (can you do 
that in Britain? You can here), I thought the natural wizarding way 
was to finish Hogwarts and get a job. I'd guess there's some nice 
little dinner/ceremony at the end of 7th year, but that's about it.
> 

Yes, that was the impression I had too, based on Percy and no one 
speaking about any of the older characters going anywhere to an 
institute of higher education. They just seem to recall their 
Hogwarts days as their formative yrs; if there was college, there 
probably could only be one, so everyone would have gone to it, making 
it probable that someone would have talked about it before. Also, 
someone told me that JKR did at a talk make a remark dealing with 
this question. 

Charmian 

(so, why no higher ed? With some of the archaic stuff in the world, 
could further training be provided through a semi-apprenticeship 
system? Or as somebody suggested, so JKR didn't have to write a 
sequel. I mean, Tom Brown's schooldays, which I plan to read at some 
point, was followed by Tom Brown at Oxford.... )