Common Rooms

edisbevan A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk
Mon Sep 30 10:50:49 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 44696

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
ON the extreme House separation at hogwartsP
> 
> I seriously doubt that a system like that could exist in the US.
> Possibly in a few exclusive private schools that model themselves
> after European schools. 

>From an UK perspective the House system at Hogwarts sounds much more 
like the (sterotypes?) of the Greek Letter fraternities at US 
colleges than the House system as it survives in (some) British 
schools. 

The US Fraternites are standard horror stories by the way for any 
Europeans wanting to claim cultural superority over the USA.

In The case of our books I suspect that dramatic devises helpful for 
early stories will prsent continuity problems in later stories.

Edis







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