Mozart!Wizard and other inane schooling ideas

[nobodysrib <nobodysrib@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52983

Has there ever been any speculation on why there aren't any young 
geniuses running around Hogwarts, Doogie Howser style?  At first I 
thought that this just wasn't plausible since Hermione, if anyone, 
would go in that category...  however, picture this scenario:  a 
witch and wizard ala Frasier and Lilith (from "Cheers" and "Frasier") 
have a child who starts showing amazing abilities (along the line of 
doing a patronus charm or becoming an animagi) at a very young 
age.  Mozart!Wizard, in a way.  Don't you think that in the 1000 
years that Hogwarts has been around that at least a few Mozart!
Wizards would come around?  

As for my Hermione comment, her parents being dentists, they wouldn't 
have necessarily recognized Hermione's natural talents.  (What?  Not 
notice their child becoming a cat right before their very eyes?)  
Perhaps I should re-phrase.  They wouldn't have noticed any minor 
disturbances.  And, had there been large ones, they wouldn't have 
known who to contact.

(But I don't think there were any larger disturbances - wouldn't 
Hermione have told us about them?  "No, Ron, it's wing-gar-dium levi-
o-sa.  Honestly, Ron, I was doing this when I was five!")

H said her parents were delighted to have H receive the Hogwarts 
letter (this always confused me, as my first reaction would be 
concern - sending my child away to place I'd never heard of before, 
if nothing else) - perhaps H _was_ showing some small abilities and 
the Hogwarts letter finally explained it all.

I think it's more likely that H's genius comes from another place.  
Not only is she the classic over-acheiver, but she also seemed very 
determined, from day one on the train, to prove that although she is 
muggle born she very much deserves to be at and belongs at Hogwarts.  
(This goes along with the idea that's it's 1% talent and 99% effort 
that gets you ahead in the world.)

But back to my main point - certainly the Frasier!wizards and Lilith!
witches in the world would petition to have their Mozart!wizard 
accepted early to Hogwarts.  And it seems dangerous to me for  
children with this early-developed gift/ability to not be in a 
magically scholastic environment.

(Could this help explain how Tom Riddle went bad?  Or am I just 
delving into the inane?)

- nobody's rib, who (of the HHR trio) really does like Hermione the 
most