[HPforGrownups] Re: British Boarding School Books By "Old Boys": Read by Rowling?

[Victoria Dick]

No: HPFGUIDX 65727


Jesta Hijinx wrote:
>
> I agree, Selene - does anyone know how British schools *do* handle multiple 
> sibs at one school?
> 

I was at a girls' boarding school - so it was slightly different, we 
were all known by our Christian names.  I had friends at boys' 
boarding schools who said that while some of the older masters refered 
to pupils by their surnames it was becoming less common, although if 
there was more than one sibling at the school (or an older brother had 
been there in the past) it was sometimes easier to remember a surname 
IYSWIM - so that they'd shout out 'Jones stop running in the 
corridoor/drowning the cat/whatever'.

Mixed boarding schools in the UK tend to be more progressive/less 
traditional and from what I know (it is a while since I left school!) 
more inclined to use christian names.

-- 
Victoria
Joshua (7/4/97), Kitty (22/7/99) & Hamish (22/01/02)

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