[HPforGrownups] Prefects/Forms? (was Re: Question From A befuddled American)

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 26473


--- Neil Ward <neilward at dircon.co.uk> wrote:
 
> Welcome befuddled Americans!
  
> On a related topic, there is another concept I
> haven't seen in the HP books;
> that of forms and form captains.  In addition to
> having houses, most British
> schools split each year into forms (usually three or
> four per year) each of
> which would include students from each of the school
> houses.  Instead of
> having a house common room as the shared base,
> students have a form room,
> with a form teacher who takes the register each
> morning and acts as a
> 'parental' figure.  The students elect a form
> captain to represent them.

   'Forms' sound like a way of breaking up years into
manageable bits. Since Hogwarts years seem to number
forty or so this probably isn't necessary. 
 
> That's just from my experience, but it occurred to
> me recently that the
> focus we see at Hogwarts, on smaller groups of
> students from each House, may
> have something to do with the streaming of students,
> and that we're only
> seeing one stream in the action.

   Uh, streaming? Is that anything like 'tracking'
which means seperating students into groups aimed at
college or at vocational schools, a practice extremely
controversial here in America.

  I admit that
> there's no real evidence for
> that (before all you L.O.O.N.s attack me), but it's
> a way of coping with
> JKR's puzzling 1,000 figure without having to bend
> the laws of physics.

   It is the function of magic to bend the laws of
physics ;) and what is a L.O.O.N.?

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