3 H's - Homeschooling; Harry Acronym; Happiness

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 26562

I had a thought about homeschooling earlier - we know that in the wizarding 
world, people can communicate by having their head suspended in a fireplace - 
I don't know yet if it's possible to do a "broadcast" that way (i.e. one 
person speaking to many at the same time) but if it was, it would be not 
unreasonable for ALL wizarding kids to be schooled at home, because the 
classroom would come to them. A lot of homeschoolers incorporate such things 
these days into their homeschooling - in using the internet to get extra 
educational materials for their kids - more than the parents themselves have 
or know. If teachers can "firetalk" with the kids in their own houses, they 
will be homeschooled, but with some outside tests, grading, etc.

re: a Harry Acronym - his first word in the books is "Nearly" so I tried to 
fit an acronym to that:
Never Ever Attack the Really Loveable Youth (or, Yute if you're living in My 
Cousin Vinny world)

Lame, I know, but I felt like I had to contribute

In terms of Happiness, since I was the one who got Amy to bring the thread 
here, I want to finally put in my 2 sickles. I do think that Remus is likely 
to be higher on the happy side after book 3 than he was before, no matter how 
much he thought he had "recovered" from what he perceived to be sirius' 
betrayall and peter & james' deaths. I also think that in the general scheme 
of things, a lot of the characters are probably "happy" - Hagrid, the twins, 
oliver, bill, charlie, percy, the weasley parents, probably Ginny as well ( I 
do not think of her as moping & pining over harry , day in & day out), 
Crabbe, Goyle - Cedric was as well. 
I think Draco isn't (but that's more based on undercurrents than obvious and 
blinking signs) - but I think that if he can be, sirius is, especially 
because he is THERE for harry in a way that has to bring him contentment. 
Not to want to bring up all the anxiety and misery of the past 2 weeks, but 
can any of us say that we are absolutely happy now? How can we really be, 
when thousands have been killed - all in the space of 75 minutes? But in the 
day to day of living, I have to be, so my son doesn't pick up on the anxiety 
and fear, to make everything as normal as possible for him. 
Didn't JKR say that only unhappy people become ghosts? There's a thick line 
between being unhappy and being happy - and that's probably where most of us 
fall, most of the time. Not active sadness, but a level of contentment and 
non-miserables...



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