Hogwarts Attendance Not Required for Legal Magic (WAS: Hagrid's wand...)

[erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48014

Sasha HP wrote:

> It is generally accepted that many wizarding children do
> not attend Hogwarts and are taught by whoever they live with
> or work for. Nice this might seem, but then we should
> remember that when Hagrid was expelled, he was forbidden to
> do magic at all. Hence, if you live in Britain and want to do magic
> legally, you MUST attend Hogwarts. There is no other way
> around it (surely Hagrid would use it if it existed). 

Now me:

I think Hagrid was forbidden to do magic as a condition of his 
expulsion, not because he didn't complete his Hogwarts education.  
His wand was snapped (and then the pieces returned to him - go 
figure!).  I believe home-schooled wizards can do magic legally, as 
they presumably have intact wands to work with.

~Phyllis