BRITS: Hogwarts Housing

[Heather Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 29690

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Michelle Apostolides" <michelleapostolides at l...> wrote:
> |
> |  Everybody's aware of the seeming discrepancy between JKR's claim of a
> thousand Hogwarts students, and the "homelife" clues which suggest a
> much smaller population. Is it feasible to propose that while most of
> the First and Second Years and the collegers live in the castle, there
> is *also* a larger population who live as oppidans in Hogsmeade? I
> should think that would only give more weight to the view of Hogsmeade
> as a college town which grew up initially to support the school,
> providing boarding houses and the like.
> It is possible that some pupils live in Hogwarts, but not many. As far
> as we know, there is no tertiary education section in the magical world.


 You know, I've wondered once or twice why, if there is indeed do tertiary magickal education, do the students have to undergo *two* sets of exam levels? This is based on my perception is that school leavers who don't intend to continue their education rest on their O-levels, and A-levels are undertaken by those who want to go on to further schooling after compulsories are over.  

I have a strong suspicion that Hogwarts is more like a Scottish school (with their traditional "Generals, Highers, and Sixth Year Studies" - as I understand it, everyone has to do both the Generals and the Highers, and then a lot of kids go on to do 'Higher Stills'), than like a standard English public school - at least as far as I understand the differences. Hogwarts being in Scotland, though, it would make sense?

Yeesh, I wonder if all the magickal schools are based on tweaked versions of their home countries' school systems. Do Swedish wizards have gymnasiums?

 (I'm drawing a blank -- which comes first, the OWLs, or the NEWTs?)