If you were Headmaster of Hogwarts...

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No: HPFGUIDX 37025

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:

> However, I know (and I think you do, as well) that events will 
prove me right and that Harry will be able to win with the education 
he's receiving right now, without any need of special circumstances. 
The only room for discussion is whether he'll survive the fight and, 
if he doesn't, if he would have been able to survive if he had 
received the education. The trouble is, if the only way to survive is 
to receive an education which will mean he's social death as soon as 
his work is over, I don't know which would be worse. <

Well, yes, on a story-external basis we know that Voldemort will be 
defeated.  But the characters within the story do not know that.  
Given the threat of Voldemort gaining power, any significant increase 
in the probability of Harry defeating Voldemort would be worth 
wrecking Harry's post-Hogwarts social life.  This sounds harsh...it 
IS harsh.  But in this kind of war, to fail to do this in order to 
protect the general magic community would be irresponsible.

In addition, I don't know that the effects of this curriculum would 
be all that bad.  He would still have his friends, after all--and 
it's not as if the regular curriculum was all that great either.  
Just how much daily use would he have gotten from Divination or 
Astronomy, anyways?  I suspect that learning Meditation more than 
makes up for the loss.  In my curriculum, he is still in Gryffindor 
tower, taking DADA, Potions, Transfiguration, and Charms with his 
friends, so he is not totally isolated.

Bill