Wizard Uni - Myrtle

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No: HPFGUIDX 18493

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Elizabeth C" <nizbet_noni at h...> wrote:

> Firstly, I think that there *are* higher education institutions in 
the 
> wizarding world, that Hogwarts etc are not the be-all-and-end-all 
of 
> learning. Maybe not universitys as such, but training centers for 
> professors, wand-makers, etc. 

I, too, find it hard to imagine that there aren't wizard centers of 
higher learning.  The evidence against it seems to be mainly that JKR 
has said there are no wizard universities and that Percy Weasley, an 
academic-oriented person if there ever was one, goes directly from 
Hogwarts to a job in the MOM.

Of course, just because JKR has said something doesn't mean we 
believe her (after all, it's only her universe) as evidence by The 
Great Population Debate.  

And maybe bureaucrats don't need any more training, but other types 
of wizards do, so there are, as Elizabeth suggested, vocational 
training centers, or at least apprenticeships?  Maybe thats what 
Charlie is doing in Romania -- an internship at the Center for Dragon 
Studies.

This one really bugs me.  How could a community which produces 
periodicals like "The Journal of Transfiguration" NOT have any 
academic institutions higher than secondary schools?



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