[HPforGrownups] Work after Hogwarts?

[Catherine Keegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 26415

At 02:20 AM 9/21/01 +0000, you wrote:
>  I am wondering if all graduates of Hogwarts work in the
>wizarding world and what kind of job oppurtunities there are.

Good question especially since I've wondered that many times myself.  It 
sounds like the MoM employs a bunch of folks and, since Percy managed to 
get a job right out of Hogwarts, that they don't require any other 
education or maybe they have classes there.

There seems to be retail jobs (Flourish and Blotts, Zonkos) and pub 
jobs.  There seems to be a yearly slot open at Hogwarts for a DADA 
teacher.  We've heard about St. Mungos and there is also at least one 
prison.  Madam Pomfrey is what sounds like the equivalent of a school 
nurse.  Filch takes care of the grounds and Hagrid takes care of the 
game.  They have sports figures so the support staff for those folks 
(coaches, announces, sports writers, equipment handlers) would also be 
needed.  They have newspapers and sleazy periodicals so you would need 
reporters and editors and probably lawyers to handle the lawsuits from the 
sleazy periodicals.  Somehow I can't imagine my old turf of programmer 
would be needed since they don't seem to have any kind of computers (except 
Dudley's broken ones and that's not a part of their world).   There must 
also be some kind of manufacturing jobs since Zonkos seems to sell a lot of 
stuff to the kids.  The MoM also takes care of crime enforcement.  The 
Knight Bus is an alternate form of transportation (and, it seems, where the 
students who flunk out of Hogwarts go for jobs...).

Construction?  Dragonkeepers (Charlie).  Bill works as a spell breaker (or 
something very similar) for Gringotts.  The goblins seem to control 
banking.  I wonder if there's a wizard stock market?

>So what do graduates put on their resumes under education when
>applying for jobs in the Muggle world?  It seems that this would be
>particularly difficult for children from Muggle families.

I always wondered what Hermione's family thought about the whole 
thing.  They're dentists and the dental profession pays well.  Wouldn't 
they want her to do something similar?  She's supposed to be the first 
witch in her family.  I know, don't think too hard about it or the story 
line fails, but she's missing the equivalent of high school (ok, the 
American equivalent).  What about College?  It sounds like Hogwarts is a 
combination of the two but I can't help but wonder if there are Wizard 
colleges.  It seems like some of the jobs would require a lot more 
education and training.

Catherine in California