[HPforGrownups] Why Can't Hagrid Be Readmitted to Hogwarts? (WAS: Why can't

[maddiehayes01]

No: HPFGUIDX 43862

Phyllis wrote:

> Is this a cultural difference, 
> perhaps - is it not as readily accepted in the UK to go 
> back to 
> school in later life as it is in the US?


I know that that is the case in Germany.  My friend's mom lived 
their during her youth, and tells us that if you don't have you're 
act together by 5th grade or so, your future doesn't look very 
good.  
The same friend went to Germany this summer to stay with a girl who 
came here last year.  She said that something that really bothered 
her was the host girl's attitude and, what seemed to her, peoples' 
attitudes in general, to people who don't go to the Gymnasium(the 
highest high school); she said her host girl said people who go to 
the lower schools aren't as smart: people with bad home lives, one 
parent, parents who beat them, that type of thing.  Of course my 
friend pointed out that coming from a bad home does not make you 
stupid.  But to get to my point, I would imagine that England is 
more like Germany than the US.  America is one of the few countries 
where you can mess around until your 20s, sometimes even 30s, and 
still be successful.  
I think attitudes toward Hagrid are just another aspect of English 
society put into the WW.

~Katey
PS-just to make sure people understand, I'm not bad-mouthing Germany 
or England.  I've been to both places before and they're absolutely 
wonderful.  That's just a bad aspect of their countries, as the US 
and all other countries have their bad aspects.  =)