If Hogwarts were an American Boarding School..

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "fionastewpeas" <fionastewpeas at y...> wrote:
> I've been wondering about that. How would the academic structure be
> different? I have no idea what a boarding school is like in America 
But supposing Hogwarts were in America,
> it's pretty fair to assume that the kids would be having all kinds 
of
> hanky panky going on > Would the wizard kids be obsessed with NSync 
and Britney Spears or
> whatever the groups were at that time? Would they return to school
> after summer holidays sporting tongue piercings and green hair?

Um.  Boy, am I embarrassed to read that as an American, because I can 
assure you that a great deal of American private (not public) day and 
boarding schools are a lot more like Hogwarts than what you describe 
above.  I went to one of these, and except for the menu (how do those 
kids at Hogwarts survive on that diet?  ugh) it was uncannily like 
Hogwarts.  I was shocked to find out what many U.S. public schools 
were like, from my friends.  So, a scenario as you describe would 
probably only happen at the more progressive U.S. boarding schools, 
and I can't really imagine it at any school that stresses academics 
and skepticism of popular culture.

However, to attempt to give you some answers, I can imagine the kids 
saying 'smart' instead of 'clever,' 'grades' instead of 'marks,' and 
even having some sort of wizard football or basketball or hockey 
besides Quidditch (we don't have as much rugby or soccer, though 
soccer's become bigger lately).  They might wear jeans and baseball 
caps on the weekends, too.

A.J.