Hogwarts prep school/Clothing/language/Muggle Interface

[bystardust]

No: HPFGUIDX 38541

Tex wrote:
> Pre-Hogwarts primary education may have to be arranged by a wiz-
kid's
> family and there may be many ways of doing it: Maybe Molly
> home-schools her kids, The Malfoys brought in a tutor/governess 
> for Draco. Some parents may form a coop school.  Some may even 
> use a house-elf, except for language.

While this might be true, it seems a little far-fetched that every 
single wizarding family in the world is responsible for their own 
children's education. Then again, I suppose there are a lot of things 
in the WW that are pretty far-fetched, but it just seems odd to me 
that there would be secondary but not primary school. Also, not all 
wizarding families would be able to afford private tutors, and Molly 
Weasley appears to be so busy already...

Tex again:
> The movie notwithstanding, the robes in the book cover everything.
> One wouldn't see anything they wore under their robes.
> The owl from Hogwarts specifies only the robes, not the jackets 
> and ties we saw in the movie. When the kids are out of the robes, 
> we do see Muggle clothing

I actually wasn't thinking about the movie when I said that. I think 
I remember a part of the book saying that the students wear their 
robes over muggle clothes, but I could be way off. After all, Ron 
shooes Hermione out of the train in the first book so that he and 
Harry can get into their robes.
 
> The Hogwarts kids not only dress like Muggle teens; they talk like
> them.  Seems to me there is much more of an interface with the 
> Muggle world than JKR needs to show us...Probably many Wizards make 
> their living from services to 
> Muggles, although it is stricly controled by the MoM.

Arthur Weasley bases his entire career on muggles, but he doesn't 
walk around in muggle clothing. It seems as though even most of the 
wizards who are very educated in the subject of muggles (not 
including the ones who are muggle born) are to wrapped up in their 
*own* world to know everything about the non-wizarding world. That 
didn't make much sense, but my point is it's strange that the Weasley 
children (for example) wear muggle clothing around the house while 
thier parents' wardrobes consist of all robes (in GoF, when Arthur 
tried to dress as a muggle for the World Cup, the results were...not 
pretty). You're probably right; maybe, somewhere along the line, it 
even became a lot more popular for teenage wizards to wear muggle 
clothing, and the older generation is just behind the times. But then 
there are also a lot of -really- strict rules that are applied when 
it comes to muggles finding out about the WW. I agree with your 
point, though.

--Doldra