Work after Hogwarts?

[bookraptor11 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26527

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Catherine Keegan <keegan at m...> wrote:
> At 03:14 PM 9/22/01 -0700, Kelly wrote:
> >--- Catherine Keegan <keegan at m...> wrote:
> >
> > >The Knight Bus is an alternate form of
> > >transportation (and, it seems, where
> > >the students who flunk out of Hogwarts
> > >go for jobs...).
> >
> >I don't recall reading this.  How did you come to the conclusion 
that
> >Stan Shunpike & Ernie Prang flunked out?
> 
> They didn't appear to be the brightest folks around.  More your 
less than 
> Joe Average.  At least that's how it read to me.

I think it's more a British thing, public school (which would be a 
private school in the US) vs. townies, upper vs. lower class. They 
have Cockney accents, so they probably went to a local school.  Which 
in turn argues that there must be some system of wizard primary 
schools scattered across Great Britain. If you're lower class, unless 
you're particularly intelligent or gifted, maybe you're finished with 
school after 11.  Just a bit of rudimentary magic training. It sounds 
antiquated, but I think others on the list have pointed out that the 
wizard's realm seems to be a bit behind the times compared to the 
muggle world.

By the way, I'm not from England.  I'm just guessing based on old 
movies I've seen about English schooling, Goodbye Mr. Chips in 
particular.  Remember the scene where the schoolboy and the townboy 
(who's already working) get in the fight, wind up friends and die 
together in WW1?  The public school boy is an officer, the townie his 
batman.

Donna