higher ed/ was Hogwarts prep school

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 38526

Hmm...I really have to wonder about this.  I don't think there are 
wizarding prep schools, it doesn't seem as though any of the students 
had an edge over each other when they first entered Hogwarts.  Take 
Hermione for example- she did wonderful in all her classes first 
year, and she obviously couldn't have gone to a prep school- seeing 
as how she was from Muggle backgrounds.  The only difference between 
the students seemed to have been that if you were of Muggle 
background, you just didn't know about certain "normal"(in a 
wizarding sense) things(i.e.- Quidditch, Howlers, Floo Powder, etc.)  
And then Ron and Neville were both from pureblood families and they 
didn't seem as though they knew any more anyone else.

And this just makes me wonder...how do wizarding children learn to 
read or write or any of those fundametals that we learn in school?  
Do their mothers just home school them?  That's the only answer I can 
come up with, unless they have a sort of primary school, and then 
from there they can go to a wizarding school.