[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Uni - Myrtle

[Cait Hunter]

No: HPFGUIDX 18518

I sort of figured she meant "No, I'm not writing any more Harry books after 
the 7th" type of thing, actually. No Harry at uni, type thing. Maybe?

Cait (and corgis), newly converted Draco fangirl, making a Draco plushie...


>From: joym999 at aol.com
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Uni - Myrtle
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:46:12 -0000
>
>--- 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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