[HPforGrownups] various musings on education

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 59164

Catlady wrote:

>I believe that all the magic children, whether Muggle-born or
>wizarding born, get an invite to Hogwarts. That would be 1000 kids at
>Hogwarts, as JKR stated in an interview, to account for a wizarding
>population around 20,000, to maintain the wizarding economy that we
>have seen. My multi-campus theory explains how there can be 1000 kids
>at Hogwarts like JKR said and only 280 at Hogwarts Castle as we have
>seen in the books. I say, Hogwarts at the castle is the original and
>most prestigeous campus of the Hogwarts systems and is called just
>"Hogwarts" like UC Berkeley is called just "Cal". There are two or

It's interesting that we have come up with different solutions to the
problem which flow from our different conclusions about the population of
the WW - you've gone for the smaller end and a multi-campus system while I
prefer the higher population theory but alternative methods of education for
the majority of children! I suspect that canon is never going to help us out
on this one but I can see the elegance of your theory while not agreeing
with it :-)

Meanwhile SophineClaire wrote:

>I think language skills are an important part as to whether students
>get a letter to such and such a school. Considering what we have seen
>in the Beauxbaton student scenes in GOF, it appears that they
>communicate to each other in French and I'm making the assumption
>that many of their classes are taught in French while the spells
>still remain JKR's form of Latin. I know we hear Drumstrang students
>speak english, but would that have anything to do with KarKaroff
>possibly being a little 'encouraging' in that direction.

An interesting suggestion. But does it also suggest that there is a school
for every language? Or even every European language? Even the (muggle) UK
has four living (more if you count revived) native languages on top of
English - conceivably the WW has even more!

Though although Hogwarts is located in Scotland, it's neither a Gaelic nor a
Scots-language school

Cheers

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