[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts students and dialect

[Robert Gonzalez]

No: HPFGUIDX 45658


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ali" <Ali at zymurgy.org>
>  Whilst I do agree with you in principle, I don't really see how
> seperate accents and dialects would survive the workings of the WW.
> The WW seems to me to be too small and too segrated from the Muggle
> World to retain its many accents and dialects. I like you tend to
> believe that all wizarding children are educated at Hogwarts. But I
> am inclined to think that 5 or 7 years would be sufficient to modify
> most children's accents to the "standard" accent, when the "standard"
> accent is what they would hear day in and day out.

me:
I think it makes sense that there are those who, while selected to go to
Hogwarts because of their wizarding abilities, either don't go or drop out
and never return. These might be the kind of people who take the lowly jobs
and/or retain whatever regional accents they may have. The academic route is
not for everyone after all.

Rob