[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Population and Other Schools

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47195



finwitch wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., jazmyn <jazmyn at p...> wrote:
> 
> > Harry went to a muggle grade school and one supposes that 'purebred'
> > wizards are either home schooled or go to muggle schools, depending
> on
> > how their parents feel about muggles.  Or there might be some sort
> of
> > magic books that teach basic grade school stuff.  Could be any or
> all
> > methods.
> > I kinda get the idea that a wizards powers don't really start
> > to kick in till they are at least 10-11 years old.  Or they would
> not
> > dare let kids under 11 have wands!
> 
> They do not /give/ them wands until they're under 11! Little wizards

You mean OVER 11, not under.  You don't let kids under 10 learn how to
shoot a gun either. My uncle taught me when I was 12 at least and my
parents would not even let me touch a BB Gun before that.. They acted
like it was a rattlesnake or something. By the time I did learn, I was a
little nervous about handling them at first and still treat them with
great respect.  No doubt Wizard parents would take care to keep wands
out of the kids hands, though some parents are more responsible then
others.  Seems there are just as many 'idiots with kids' in the WW as in
the muggle world.. As seen by 'Kevin' or the little girls flying toy
brooms where muggles might see them at the campground during the
Quidditch Cup.  One thinks they might have had less trouble if they just
confided in the muggle who ran the place and paid him off to keep
quiet.. rather then give him brain damage with too many memory spells...
Sheesh, how many can one guy take anyways??



> *do* use magic when they're just little kids, look at 2-year-old
> Kevin (who was being scolded by his mother for *touching* Daddy's
> wand... it's not like he was /given/ that wand, mind you). Of course,
> it seems that magic does grow by age. Don't know how much magic Kevin
> can do without a wand... but anyway, every adult wizards supposedly
> knows all the counter-spells to anything their kids may accidentally
> do. It's even expected that wizarding-kid does accidental magic (as
> Neville's history with Uncle Algie shows).
> 
> And no, a wizard-born child wouldn't be attending a Muggle-school; A
> wizarding child in a Muggle-class would do so much accidental magic
> (We know Harry did even though he himself didn't at the time) against
> the helpless Muggles, that NO way is a wizard's magical kid going to
> go into Muggle school and scare all the teachers with his daring
> seeming jumps from high up (school roof?) to end with a miraculously
> safe landing where a Muggle kid would have at least broken a limb...
> 
> But I do think that a witch or wizard /might/ attend a Muggle
> professional school, particularly as no wizard ones exist. I think
> that some of the staff in St Mungos is educated in both Muggle and
> Wizard medics... And perhaps it was St Mungos where Dursleys took
> Dudley to get rid of the pig-tail, recommended by Mrs Figg (who may
> have /worked/ there in her youth and married a Muggle? At least she
> knows how long she must walk with a stick when she's broken a leg).
> 
> -- Finwitch
>


I think pre-wizard schooling is up to the parents. Some wizard families
MIGHT send a kid to a muggle school.  I'm sure Arther Weasley might if
they lived near a good one, but I get the impression they live WAY out
in the country and home schooling is more convenient then dealing with
the local muggle school.. or maybe they did send some of them and we
never heard about it.  Might explain a few things about Bill's 'rock
star' style clothes, earring and such? Too much exposure to Muggle kids!
Maybe Molly didn't like the influence the muggle kids gave him and
decided to home school the rest. ;)

Jazmyn