Witchcraft and Wizardry: What do they teach at Hogwarts????

sophineclaire <metal_tiara@hotmail.com> metal_tiara at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 17 23:21:50 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 50006

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days.
Hogwarts has the sub-title of being a school for Witchcraft and 
Wizardry. Now, if magic was all inclusive wouldn't Hogwarts be 
subtitled as a school of Magic, that being what everyone is learning 
there. Or is there more to it.
 Granted, this coule just be a way to say 'Witches do witchcraft 
while Wizards do wizardry but it's all the same, except in title' 
that possibly dates back to before the founders. Or back in the days 
when there were sections of magic that were a considered to be a 
man's domain and others that were placed strictly off limits to them 
by women.
  Or maybe there are forms of magic that can really only be 
performed by one sex or the other, if you remove what their society 
might say. What was so special about Lily's so-called-save-my-baby 
charm that only she could do?? Why not James or Sirius or Remus or 
Peter?. Is it because she is his mother? she's a female? I believe 
this points to something. Maybe you can call it Sex Ed, but maybe 
Witches have the upper hand to men when it comes to magic. But 
that's going on a tangent. But why call a refer to a school as 
teaching Witchcraft and Wizardry if there isn't some sort of 
difference between males and females that require that sort of 
classifaction.

Though, as I said, I could be a purely historic thing.

-SophineClaire
   ( Who's made herself really confused and FIgures that no matter 
how Hogwarts is organized, Hermione is going to go on a hunger 
strike if she's not allowed to take a course that she's barely 
interested in.)
  





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