[HPforGrownups] Re: Yearbooks/Harry Potter TV series

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No: HPFGUIDX 28245

In a message dated 26/10/2001 14:58:41 GMT Daylight Time, vheggie at yahoo.com 
writes:

<< That's funny, because I was just about to compose a post saying quite 
 the opposite! >>

Oh well. learn something new every day :o) It just seems to me it's not the 
common thing. A last year leaving photo thing yeah, but with or without the 
year book we'd have got that cos of the (almost) yearly school photos. An 
actual book as the americans do it isn't all that common going from my 
friends and experiences of schools in the UK ( My first school was an 
international one in Singapore and they did have a year book produced every 
year for all the schools pupils, as opposed to the final years. Probably 
because people left so often to go to another country). We had the school 
magazine, but it was just bits of a paper, no photos or anything flash.
My parents both went to Grammer schools and they too never had a year book, 
and that was in Newcastle, so I imagined it was the same for most of the 
country... but nevermind...

I think the reason Hogwarts in particular doesn't have one is because JKR's 
school probably didn't have one and seeing how it's not common in the UK 
school system in quite the way it is in the US and the books were written for 
UK school kids originally, it would just confuse a lot of them.