Why Can't Hagrid Be Readmitted to Hogwarts?

[mitchbailey82]

No: HPFGUIDX 43867

"Katey wrote:"

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.  =)

In England and the whole of the UK you have compulsory schooling from 
the age 4 to the age of 16 - when you do your GCSE's (its some other 
exam in Scotland though - I think the called Scotish higher exams or 
something) If you fail these exams you rarely go back to the 
secondary/ senior school that you have been through - generally you 
have to go to a college or night school (not 6th form because usually 
you have to have certain good results to be amitted). It's not that 
people don't have the chance to get the exams when their older it's 
that they don't go to the secondary school with all the 16 and unders.
However as JRK states (in an interview I think) that there are no 
wizard universities it is resonable to assume that there are no 
colleges so how someone who is older gets to retake the exams in 
latter life I don't know - maybee kwikee -spell courses (cos) like 
Filch was taking aren't only for squibs...

Michelle