[HPforGrownups] Driver's ED

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48757

In a message dated 23/12/2002 18:52:54 Eastern Standard Time, 
michelleapostolides at yahoo.co.uk writes:


>   1 - In the UK, there is no driver's Ed in school. We have to either learn 
> with someone we know or pay a driving instructor to teach us. There should 
> be driver's ed, though, IMNSHO. 


Very true. Americans, as I learned coming here from the UK, also get to drive 
earlier... which would make the question valid for US people, as ( having 
taught in the states, I learned) driver's ed is part of the curriculum. 

But again, I stand by the idea that driving is hardly a necessary skill... 
Look back before magic carpets were banned by the MoM- they could seat large 
families... a simple invisibility charm would do the trick... also there is 
mention of brooms large enough to seat a family- again simple charm....

And, remember Sirius's motorcycle... it flies... I hardly doubt a cop would 
pull him over ;)

That, along with the flying for anglia, makes me think that the wizarding 
world really wouldn't want to drive normal autos... Take the Knight Bus... no 
one but Wizards see it because Muggles only see what they want to see--- 
meanwhile houses are jumping out of the KB's path....

And the Ministry cars slid through traffic with ease and jump to the head of 
the lines of parked cars...

Sounds much better than conventional muggle transport, if you ask me...

-Snuffles, now wanting a broom of her own
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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