[HPforGrownups] Classist Hogwarts (was ... was .... was...)

[James P. Robinson III]

No: HPFGUIDX 45987

As the clock struck 01:48 AM 11/1/2002 +0000, GulPlum took pen in hand and 
wrote:

>The principal issue here would appear to be whether or not Hogwarts is the
>ONLY wizarding school in Britain to offer a full curriculum. There are
>those on this list (Hi, Elkins, among others!) :-) who choose not to
>believe JKR's statement that this is the case. I see no reason to doubt JKR
>and can find nothing in canon to shake my belief. That, however, is a
>separate discussion which we've already had several times before and which
>I hope we won't have now.
>
>If Hogwarts is the only school, then in what way can it be "elitist"?

This is an interesting post, to which I do not have time to respond fully 
tonight  I do have to say that this new argument is not really an argument 
at all, but simply an exercise in "moving the goalposts".  BTW, I see no 
reason to suppose, based on cannon, that Hogwarts is the only secondary 
school for magical folks.

                                                         Jim

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